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Would every person immediately understand us if we told him that when he requests salt by saying ‘Can you pass the salt?’, he is in fact speaking indirectly? I do not think so. And neither do I think that the meaning of the following claim is clear to everyone: ‘In everyday speech, we often use one sentence to convey the meaning of another’ (Gordon & Lakoff 1975: 83).
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© 1996 Pär Segerdahl
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Segerdahl, P. (1996). The Semantic Reading and the Notion of Indirect Speech. In: Language Use. Swansea Studies in Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375093_15
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