The paper distinguishes between two conceptions of kinds defined by constitutive rules, the
one suggested by Searle, and the one invoked by Williamson to define assertion. Against …

Dog whistling—speech that seems ordinary but sends a hidden, often derogatory message
to a subset of the audience—is troubling not just for our political ideals, but also for our …

What makes it the case that an utterance constitutes an illocutionary act of a given kind? This
is the central question of speech-act theory. Answers to it—ie, theories of speech acts—have …

Utterances of natural language sentences can be used to communicate not just contents, but
also forces. This paper examines this topic from a cross-linguistic perspective on sentential …

Abstract Peter Hanks and Scott Soames both defend pragmatic solutions to the problem of
the unity of the proposition. According to them, what ties together Tim and baldness in the …

argued that a different dimension of expressive meaning (“use-conditional”, as opposed to
truth-conditional) is required to characterize the meaning of pejoratives, including slurs and …

Together, the code and inferential models of communication are often thought to range over
all cases of communication. However, their prevailing versions seem unable to fully explain …

This book argues that the major traditions in the philosophy of language have mistakenly
focused on highly idealized linguistic contexts. Instead, it presents a non-ideal foundational …

We develop a dynamic account of what if questions on which they re-pose questions inside
local contexts introduced by their if-clauses subject to the felicity constraint that the resulting …

This essay addresses the question whether artificial speakers can perform speech acts in
the technical sense of that term common in the philosophy of language. We here argue that …