ABSTRACT
Foundations of Speech Act Theory investigates the importance of speech act theory to the problem of meaning in linguistics and philosophy. The papers in this volume, written by respected philosophers and linguists, significantly advance standards of debate in this area.
Beginning with a detailed introduction to the individual contributors, this collection demonstrates the relevance of speech acts to semantic theory. It includes essays unified by the assumption that current pragmatic theories are not well equipped to analyse speech acts satisfactorily, and concludes with five studies which assess the relevance of speech act theory to the understanding of philosophical problems outside the area of philosophy of language.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|237 pages
Speech acts and semantic theory
part II|126 pages
Speech acts and pragmatic theory
chapter 15|12 pages
Speech act theory and Gricean pragmatics
part III|87 pages
Speech acts and grammatical structure