There are propositions constituting the content of fictions—sometimes of the utmost importance to understand them—which are not explicitly presented, but must somehow be inferred. This essay deals with what these inferences tell us about the nature of fiction. I will criticize three well-known proposals in the literature: those by David Lewis, Gregory Currie, and Kendall Walton.1 I advocate a p...

This report introduces tools designed to detect and quantify ways in which caregivers and infants coordinate their face-toface communicative interactions. The tools analyze this coordination at multiple levels, linking prosodic patterns to illocutionary aspects of prelinguistic discourse. Data include fundamental voice frequency and sound pressure level parameters extracted from recorded intera...

A proposal is presented for the representation of pragmatic information and for its use in decisions relating to syntactic choice. A \split discourse model" is used to represent information from the context of a discourse, and this representation is then related to the level of syntactic choice by means of \low level illocutionary acts". The alternative syntactic constructions are assumed to fo...

This study aims to analyze the types of Illocutionary acts used by characters in movie Imperfect. research applies qualitative descriptive method. The writer uses 65 speech samples from this and chooses them randomly movie. It is found that there are five Imperfect, namely: Representative, Directive, Commissive, Expressive, Declarative. total about 157 utterances. Representative has 47 utteranc...