1 Speech acts in context
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چکیده
The debate on context dependence of expressions has many roots: the logicphilosophical tradition, starting with Gottlob Frege and his context principle, has developed– with David Kaplan – a paradigm of formal semantics of context-dependent expressions like indexicals and demonstratives. The debate on commonsense reasoning – starting with John McCarthy – has produced a great amount of works on contextual reasoning and on the relations among contexts. Debates in pragmatics, starting with the seminal work of Paul Grice, have posed relevant worries on the traditional paradigm and challenged the boundaries between pragmatics and semantics.
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