Department of Computer Science  

5th Annual Postgraduate Conference

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Computer Science

Kurt Ranalter

Logic & Semantics

Formal Pragmatics: Basic Ideas and Concepts

We discuss some of the basic ideas and concepts from logic and philosophy of language which led to the developement of formal pragmatics. One of our aims is to explain the notion of illocutionary force and show its crucial role in formal pragamtics.

 

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