Meaning and Speech Acts

By Daniel Vanderveken. 2009

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Negated Polarity Questions as Denegations of Assertions (2017, background): “Following Hare (1970), such denegations are explicit refusals to perform a certain speech act, here the commissive speech act expressed by I promise to come, which adds the commitment of the speaker to come.”
Assessment Sensitivity: Relative Truth and its Applications (2014, background): “18See, for example, Hare (1970), Blackburn (1984, 1988), Gibbard (1990, 2003), Price (1994), Horwich (2005), Schroeder (2008), and Richard (2008). We will look more closely at some of these in §7.”
Go Green! Should Environmental Messages be So Assertive? (2012, background): “An assertive request is one that uses the imperative form, such as “do,” “go,” and so forth, or one that leaves no option for refusal, such as “you must go” (Brown and Levinson 1987; Vanderveken 1990).”
A semantic account of mirative evidentials (2013, background): “(This characterization of complex speech acts is explored in Vanderveken (1990), which defines this relationship in terms of 'illocutionary entailment'.)”
Common ground management: Modal particles, illocutionary negation and verum (2013, methodology): “…conditions for adding p to CG: the addressee is expected to determine whether or not there are zero degrees of strength for adding p to CG, see (11): 11 In Vanderveken (1990), who made a first formal suggestion for degrees of strength, zero degrees of strength is the neutral degree of strength.”