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- Title
On the Arguments for Indirect Speech Acts.
- Authors
Bertolet, Rod
- Abstract
The usual treatment of a dinner table utterance of 'Can you pass the salt?' is that it involves an indirect request to pass the salt as well as a direct question about the hearer's ability to do so: an indirect speech act. These are held to involve two illocutionary forces and two illocutionary acts. Rod Bertolet (1994) has raised doubts about whether consideration of such examples warrants the postulation of indirect speech acts and illocutionary forces other than the literal ones. In a recent article, Mary Kate McGowan, Shan Shan Tam, and Margaret Hall claim to show that these doubts are unfounded. The purpose of this paper is to show that they have not established this.
- Subjects
SPEECH acts (Linguistics); FREE indirect speech; BERTOLET, Rod; MCGOWAN, Mary Kate; HALL, Margaret
- Publication
Philosophia, 2017, Vol 45, Issue 2, p533
- ISSN
0048-3893
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11406-017-9846-8