Keelefilosoofia raamat
L. Austin reminding us that the very idea
of a "sentence type" is a violent abstraction from linguistic reality. When a
sentence is uttered, it is invariably uttered in a particular context by a par-
ticular speaker for a particular purpose. And this is something that cannot
be ignored, for solid reasons that I shall try to make clear in the remaining
chapters of this book.
I said that the distinction between semantics and pragmatics was supposed
to be that the former deals with the acontextual meanings of sentence types,
whereas the latter addresses the social uses of linguistic expressions in con-
text. But there are two reasons why that characterization is too simple. The
first reason is that there is an important sense in which most sentence types
simply do not have acontextual meanings. The second is that, as we shall see
later on, social-use factors interpenetrate in certain special ways with what
we would otherwise think of as propositional meaning.
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