The author argues that no utterance can be fully understood simply in terms of its linguistic meaning but only with regard to contextual inference. He refutes the views of Austin and Searle and deals with major issues of pragmatics and speech-act theory.
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The author argues that no utterance can be fully understood simply in terms of its linguistic meaning but only with regard to contextual inference. He refutes the views of Austin and Searle and deals with major issues of pragmatics and speech-act theory.
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