LING 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Implicature, Unicycle, Presupposition
31 Mar 2017
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Pragmatics - trying to explain gaps between logic and language. Have the same meaning, except but is associated with some type of contrast: i walked the dog and fed the cat, i walked the dog but fed the cat. Speech acts: please take out the trash, i now declare you president of the united states of america. What is the truth value of these sentences: is a declarative, not a question or a command. All utterances (things that come out of people"s mouths or are written) can be thought of as representing specific speech acts. The dragon will come out in an hour. Associated speech act is i say or i inform you etc. Starts with what, where, which, etc. is a wh-question. Accomplish a speech act by the mere act of their utterance (important in law) When we say you are x , the real predicate is x.
