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Publication details [#53139]

Seymour, Michel. 2010. Speech act pluralism, minimal content and pragmemes. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (11) : 2870–2881.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

content1 | pragmatics | sentence | speech act | truth condition

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This study argues that a proper estimate of the role of pragmemes in defining primary truth conditions of sentences, compels us to assume speech act pluralism and bifurcationism, the idea that there are two content levels: minimal and maximal.