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A Pragmatic Logic for Commands
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The purpose of this essay is to both discuss commands as a species of speech act and to discuss commands within the broader framework of how they are used and reacted to.
[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:3] 1980. viii, 131 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 November 2011
Published online on 21 November 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Prelim pages | pp. i–vi
- Table of contents | pp. vii–viii
- Introduction | pp. 1–6
- 1. The Pragmatics of Commands | pp. 7–44
- 1.1 Commands and imperatives
- 1.2 Institutions and speech acts
- 1.3 The institution of commands
- 1.4 The authority (II)
- 1.5 The addressee (II)
- 1.6 The required action or result
- 1.7 The period during which a command is in force
- 2. A Syntax and Semantics for Commands | pp. 45–107
- 2.1 Goals
- 2.2 Commands
- 2.3 The algebra of commands
- 2.4 Rules of inference
- 2.5 Semantics (I)
- 2.6 Semantics (II)
- 2.7 Semantics (III)
- 3. Outlook and perspectives | pp. 109–112
- Footnotes | pp. 113–128
- | pp. 129–131
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