LEADER 04001nam 2200625 450 001 9910817144303321 005 20210427003458.0 010 $a1-5017-0041-3 010 $a1-5017-0042-1 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501700422 035 $a(CKB)3710000000454515 035 $a(EBL)3425976 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001533085 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12621557 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001533085 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11474198 035 $a(PQKB)11568369 035 $a(DE-B1597)480033 035 $a(OCoLC)979743339 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501700422 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3425976 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11082312 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL822031 035 $a(OCoLC)918561529 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3425976 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000454515 100 $a19991012d2000 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIllocutionary acts and sentence meaning /$fWilliam P. Alston 210 1$aIthaca, New York :$cCornell University Press,$d2000. 215 $a1 online resource (352 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8014-3669-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 315-318) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$tPart I. The Nature of Illocutionary Acts --$t1. The Stratification of Linguistic Behavior --$t2. Perlocutionary Intention Theories of Illocutionary Acts --$t3. The Nature of Illocutionary Acts --$t4. Types of Illocutionary Acts: Commissives, Exercitives, Directives, and Expressives --$t5. Assertion and Other Assertives: Completing the Account --$tPart II. An Account of the Meaning of Sentences --$t6. The Problem Of Linguistic Meaning --$t7. Illocutionary Act Potential and Illocutionary Rules --$t8. The Status of Illocutionary Rules --$t9. The Ia Potential Theory Of Meaning and Its Alternatives --$tAppendix --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aWhat is it for a sentence to have a certain meaning? This is the question that the distinguished analytic philosopher William P. Alston addresses in this major 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 sentence to perform the illocutionary act intended by its speaker. Alston defines an illocutionary act as an act of saying something with a certain "content." He develops his account of what it is to perform such acts in terms of taking responsibility, in uttering a sentence, for the existence of certain conditions. In requesting someone to open a window, for example, the speaker takes responsibility for its being the case that the window is closed and that the speaker has an interest in its being opened. In Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning, Alston expands upon this concept, creating a framework of five categories of illocutionary act and going on to argue that sentence meaning is fundamentally a matter of illocutionary act potential; that is, for a sentence to have a particular meaning is for it to be usable to perform illocutionary acts of a certain type. In providing detailed and explicit patterns of analysis for the whole range of illocutionary acts, Alston makes a unique contribution to the field of philosophy of language-one that is likely to generate debate for years to come. 606 $aSpeech acts (Linguistics) 606 $aSemantics 606 $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xSentences 615 0$aSpeech acts (Linguistics) 615 0$aSemantics. 615 0$aGrammar, Comparative and general$xSentences. 676 $a306.44 700 $aAlston$b William P.$044303 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817144303321 996 $aIllocutionary acts and sentence meaning$94024607 997 $aUNINA