Naslov
Is Unsaying Polite?

Autori
Žarnić, Berislav

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Between Logic and Reality: Modeling Inference, Action and Understanding

Urednik/ci
Trobok, Majda ; Miščević, Nenad ; Žarnić, Berislav

Izdavač
Springer

Grad
Dordrecht

Godina
2011

Raspon stranica
197-219

ISBN
978-94-007-2389-4

Ključne riječi
dynamic semantics, imperative logic, expressive adequacy, cooperative communication

Sažetak
This paper is divided in five sections. Section 1 sketches the history of the distinction between speech act with negative content and negated speech act, and gives a general dynamic interpretation for negated speech act. ``Downdate semantics" for AGM contraction is introduced in Section 2. Relying on semantically interpreted contraction, Section 3 develops the dynamic semantics for constative and directive speech acts, and their external negations. The expressive completeness for the formal variants of natural language utterances, none of which is a retraction, has been proved in section 4. The last section gives a laconic answer to the question posed in the title of the paper.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filozofija

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