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Publication details [#53143]

Montminy, Martin. 2010. Context and communication: A defense of intentionalism. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (11) : 2910–2918.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | content1 | context | illocutionary act | intention

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper adheres the intentionalism perspective on communication, according to which an utterance's content is determined by speaker intention. It also briefly clarifies how this support of intentionalism can be expanded into direct and indirect illocutionary acts.