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Autor:
William B. Starr
Publikováno v:
Semantics and Pragmatics. 13:1-60
Imperative sentences like Dance! do not seem to represent the world. Recent modal analyses challenge this idea, but its intuitive and historical appeal remain strong. This paper presents three new challenges for a non-representational analysis, showi
Autor:
Sarah E. Murray, William B. Starr
Publikováno v:
Linguistics and Philosophy. 44:425-474
Utterances of natural language sentences can be used to communicate not just contents, but also forces. This paper examines this topic from a cross-linguistic perspective on sentential mood (declarative, interrogative, imperative). Recent work in thi
Autor:
William B. Starr
Publikováno v:
The Handbook of Rationality ISBN: 9780262366175
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https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11252.003.0039
https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11252.003.0039
Autor:
William B. Starr
Lepore and Stone (2015) focus on two theoretically useful notions of meaning: conventional meaning and speaker meaning. For Lepore and Stone (2015, ch.14), the former consists of our mutual expectations about how language is used—conventions—to m
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791492.003.0007
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791492.003.0007
Autor:
William B. Starr, Sarah E. Murray
Publikováno v:
Oxford Scholarship
This essay sketches an approach to speech acts in which mood does not semantically determine illocutionary force. The conventional content of mood determines the semantic type of the clause in which it occurs, and, given the nature of discourse, that
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198738831.003.0009
Autor:
William B. Starr
Publikováno v:
ProtoSociology. 31:160-181
There is a big difference between saying Maya is singing , Is Maya singing? and Sing Maya! This paper examines and criticizes two attempts to rigorously explain this difference: Searle’s speech act theory and the truth-conditional reductionism advo
Autor:
William B. Starr
Publikováno v:
Journal of Philosophical Logic. 43:1019-1064
A uniform theory of conditionals is one which compositionally captures the behavior of both indicative and subjunctive conditionals without positing ambiguities. This paper raises new problems for the closest thing to a uniform analysis in the litera