Speech Acts and Rationality
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چکیده
This pallet derives the ha.sis of a theory, of communicat ion from a formal theov,.' of rat ional interaction. The major result is a <h, mon~t fa l len t hat. i lh ,c , t ionary acts need not I)e pr imit ive, and .ee, I uot he reco~'nized..\s a t,'st case. we derive Searle's condit ions on reqt,est in~ from pri ,ciples of ralionality coupled with a ~;ric~,an theory of iml~erativ,.s. The theory is shown to distingui.~h insincere or nonserious imperatives from tr~le requests. ['~xlensions to indirect .~peech acts. and ramifications for natural language ~ystcms are also brieily discussed.
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