Speech acts - Stanford University

Speech acts Prerna Nadathur, Ling130a/230a, Winter 2015 March 5 1 What does it mean to mean something? We’ve seen that an utterance like (1) can be used to express a number of di erent things, and can be said, in one way or another, to mean each of (1a)-(1c): (1) \Can you pass the salt?" a. ................
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