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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod



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Query Subject:   Source of Russell quote about dogs
Author:   Stephen R. Anderson
Submitter Email:  click here to access email

Query:   A standard quote in our field is Russell's "No matter how eloquently a
dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor bu
honest." Or at least Russell is claimed by many to have said that. Bu
where? I hope I will not be accused of laziness if I am reluctant to
read all of Russell to find it...

- Steve Anderson
<stephen.anderson@yale.edu>


LL Issue: 12.2145
Date posted: 02-Sep-2001



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