Edited by Gregory Bochner, Philippe De Brabanter, Mikhail Kissine and Daniela Rossi
Over the last decade, research in semantics and pragmatics has started to increasingly incorporate new experimental methods from cognitive psychology. That this empirical stance on utterance interpretation has now reached maturity is revealed by two unmistakable symptoms: (i) an increased… read more
This paper attempts to identify general, cross-cultural cognitive factors that trigger the default commissive interpretation of assertions about one’s future action. It is argued that the solution cannot be found at the level of the semantics of the English will, or any other future tense marker,… read more
Kissine, Mikhail 2008 Assertoric commitmentsCommitment, De Brabanter, Philippe and Patrick Dendale (eds.), pp. 155–177 | Article
This paper deals with the two kinds of commitment associated with assertive speech acts: the commitment to having justifications for the propositional content and the commitment to the truth of this content. It is argued that the former kind of commitment boils down to the monotonic commitment to… read more