ABSTRACT
The Austinian framework helps to implement the compromise view imagined by N. Salmon and Kent Bach. According to Austinian semantics, utterances refer to situations and what they say is predicated of those situations. The technical notion of 'situation' we find in situation theory has much wider application than the ordinary notion. Saturation is much more topic-dependent and much less rule-dependent than it suggests. According to Austinian semantics, utterances refer to situations and what they say is predicated of those situations. In sentential topic cases, the Austinian truth-conditions are invariant but, owing to the primary pragmatic process of relativisafion, the nuclear truth-conditions co-vary with the topic.
