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Poulsen, Arne. 1978. Truth conditions and the praxiological foundation of speech acts. Papers from the Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics 4 : 205–210.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English

Annotation

P. draws the attention to a double language theory underlying both everyday thought and philosophical and linguistic thinking. As for speech acts, the dualistic paradigm manifests itself in the semantics/pragmatics controversy. Presuppositions, implications, etc. ought to be treated as defeasible concepts (i.e. considered by speaker and hearer only in case of aberration).