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Speaker Plans, Linguistic Contexts, and Indirect Speech Acts

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Some indirect speech acts are unrelated to the semantic meaning of the sentence uttered, how ever widely we construe “semantic meaning”. Searle gives this example:

  1. A:

    Let’s go to the movies tonight.

  2. B:

    I have to study for an exam.

    (Searle, Indirect Speech Acts [Searle75])

The sentence “I have to study for an exam” is not lexically tied to turning down proposals to go to the movies. There is no sense in which this is part of its meaning. However, in this context B uses it to do just this.

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  1. Departments of Philosophy and Computer Science, University of Rochester, USA

    Henry E. Kyburg Jr.

  2. Department of Computer Science, Washington University, USA

    Ronald P. Loui

  3. Department of Foreign Languages, University of Rochester, USA

    Greg N. Carlson

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McCafferty, A. (1990). Speaker Plans, Linguistic Contexts, and Indirect Speech Acts. In: Kyburg, H.E., Loui, R.P., Carlson, G.N. (eds) Knowledge Representation and Defeasible Reasoning. Studies in Cognitive Systems, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0553-5_8

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