Daniel J. McKaughan

List of John Benjamins publications in which Daniel J. McKaughan is involved.

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McKaughan, Daniel J. 2012 Speech acts, attitudes, and scientific practice: Can Searle handle ‘Assuming for the sake of Hypothesis’? Pragmatics & Cognition 20:1, pp. 88–106 | Article

There are certain illocutionary acts (such as hypothesizing, conjecturing, speculating, guessing, and the like) that, contrary to John Searle’s (1969, 1975, 1979) speech act theory, cannot be correctly classified as assertives. Searle’s sincerity and essential conditions on assertives require,… read more