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Article #124Re: Speech-act planning since mid-80's?
From: Antoni Diller
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:34
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:34
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In article <GOLDMAN.92Jul20163014@neon.elements.rpal.rockwell.com> goldman@rpal.rockwell.com writes: >There has been some further work on speech acts by Cohen and Levesque. >See the book "Intentions and Communication," MIT Press, 1991. I >believe it's edited by some permutation of Perrault, Morgan, Pollack, ><unknown>. I'm afraid I am away from my library so I am unable to >check. > >R The book by Baker and Hacker, ``Language, Sense and Nonsense'' has some very powerful arguments showing that most speech act theories are worthless as accounts of how language works. They trace the mistakes of speech act theory from Frege, through Austin and Seare and many linguists. If they're correct, anybody working on speech act theory is wastinf their time!! Antoni Diller PS: I'm not convinced by their arguemnts, but are you?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!news.cs.bham.ac.uk!ard From: ard@cs.bham.ac.uk (Antoni Diller) Newsgroups: sci.lang,sci.cognitive Subject: Re: Speech-act planning since mid-80's? Message-ID: <BrrAHo.19o@cs.bham.ac.uk> Date: 21 Jul 92 20:34:35 GMT References: <1992Jul19.184549.26392@ils.nwu.edu> <BrovtL.731@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <GOLDMAN.92Jul20163014@neon.elements.rpal.rockwell.com> Sender: news@cs.bham.ac.uk Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: fattie