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Illocutionary acts and sentence meaning

by William P. Alston

2000 327 pages eng

"What is it for a sentence to have a certain meaning? This is the question that William P. Alston addresses in this contribution to the philosophy of language. His answer focuses on the given sentence's potential to play the role that its speaker had in mind - what he terms the usability of the sent…

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