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Tables of Contents for Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
Introduction
1
10
PART I THE NATURE OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS
The Stratification of Linguistic Behavior
11
22
Types of Speech Acts
11
2
Illocutionary Acts
13
4
Austin's Classification of Speech Acts
17
3
Austin on the Rhetic-Illocutionary Distinction
20
3
Austin on the Illocutionary-Perlocutionary Distinction
23
1
Austin's Characterization of Illocutionary Acts
24
2
Interrelations of Sentential and Illocutionary Acts
26
4
Perlocutionary Acts and Other Speech Acts
30
3
Perlocutionary Intention Theories of Illocutionary Acts
33
18
Explicating Illocutionary Act Concepts
33
4
Grice on Speaker Meaning
37
3
Schiffer's Account of Illocutionary Acts
40
2
Criticism of Schiffer's Account
42
3
Counterexamples to Schiffer's Account
45
6
The Nature of Illocutionary Acts
51
30
Searle's ``Non-Defective'' Promising
51
3
Taking Responsibility
54
2
Epistemological Complexities
56
1
Blameworthiness and Incorrectness
57
1
The Crucial Role of Rules
58
6
Further Modifications of Searle's Analysis
64
5
A New Analysis of Promising
69
2
Extension to Other Illocutionary Acts
71
2
De Re and De Dicto
73
4
How to Identify Conditions for Illocutionary Acts
77
1
Illocutionary Rules
78
3
Types of Illocutionary Acts: Commissives, Exercitives, Directives, and Expressives
81
33
Prelude: Conventional and Normative Facts
81
4
Commissives, Exercitives, and Verdictives: Preliminary
85
4
The Final Model for Exercitives
89
6
The Final Model for Commissives
95
2
Directives
97
6
Expressives
103
11
Assertion and Other Assertives: Completing the Account
114
33
The Problem of Assertion
114
2
Assertion as Explicitly Presenting a Proposition
116
4
How This Account Deals with Problems
120
1
Assertive-Nonassertive Overlaps
121
4
Kinds of Assertives
125
5
Analysis Patterns for Illocutionary Act Types
130
4
Restrictions on Sentential Vehicles
134
3
Unintentional Illocutionary Acts
137
5
Comparison with Perlocutionary Intention Accounts
142
5
PART II AN ACCOUNT OF THE MEANING OF SENTENCES
The Problem of Linguistic Meaning
147
44
Meaning: Preliminary
147
1
The Concept of Meaning
147
5
What I'm Looking for in a Theory of Meaning
152
2
Use as the Key to Meaning
154
3
Sentence Meaning as Primary
157
3
Sentence Meaning as Illocutionary Act Potential
160
2
Sentence Meaning and Perlocutionary Intentions
162
11
Two Difficulties in the Illocutionary Act Potential Theory
173
2
Intensifying the Difficulty
175
3
Matching Illocutionary Act Types
178
12
Illocutionary Rules
190
1
Illocutionary Act Potential and Illocutionary Rules
191
60
IA Potential as Subjection to Illocutionary Rules
191
1
Linguistic Meaning as Rule Governance
192
3
Some Versions of Semantic Rules
195
6
Progressive Complication of Illocutionary Rules
201
6
How to Handle Ellipticity and Singular Reference
207
10
Reference, Ellipticity, and R'ing as Rule Subjection
217
5
IA Analysis in Terms of Rule Subjection and in Terms of R'ing
222
7
Some Additional Problems for IA Analysis
229
5
IA's, I-Rules, IA Potential, and Sentence Meaning
234
4
Sample I-Rules and IA Analyses
238
10
How I-Rules Make Communication Possible
248
1
Speaker Meaning
249
2
The Status of Illocutionary Rules
251
24
Summary of the Foregoing
251
1
Regulative and Constitutive Rules
252
4
Unformulated Rules
256
6
Rules and Conventions
262
3
Do I-Rules Exist?
265
3
Drawing Boundaries around I-Act and I-Rule
268
4
The Meaning of Subsentential Units
272
3
The IA Potential Theory of Meaning and Its Alternatives
275
36
Preview
275
1
Initial Plausibility of the Theory
275
7
Efficacy of the Theory in Application
282
1
Replies to Objections
283
1
Mapping Alternative Theories
284
2
Words or Sentences as Fundamental
286
2
Naive Referential Theories
288
2
More Sophisticated Referential Theories
290
6
Truth Conditional Approaches
296
4
Attempts to Get Beyond Assertion I
300
7
Attempts to Get Beyond Assertion II
307
2
Conclusion
309
2
Appendix
311
4
Bibliography
315
4
Index
319