PHL 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Logica, Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning
6 Sep 2018
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Gato azul : communication depends on shared linguistic conventions, the meaning of what is said depends upon conventions, the truth or falsity of information communicated depends upon what the facts are; how things stand in the world. Levels of language: language can be used to perform many functions, to convey or request information, to bring things about, to elicit a response in one"s audience. Linguistic acts: language contains many conventions, two have already been noted, semantic conventions, syntactic conventions, when an utterance satisfies these two conventions we can be said to have performed a linguistic act. Speech acts: a linguistic act is one level at which speech acts can be described. Performatives: certain kinds of utterances performatives bring something about rather than merely describe, a marriage celebrant says you are now man and wife , this actually brings about the marriage.
