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assertives
Author_Nicholas Fotion
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commissives
context
declarations
directives
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evaluatives
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master speech acts
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speech acts
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- ISBN 9780761871033
- Weight: 195g
- Dimensions: 152 x 222mm
- Publication Date: 09 Jan 2019
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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When we use language, we presuppose many different things. Context is another name for these presuppositions. But it also can be the name of all these different presuppositions ordered in a certain way. This study of context focuses on the differences since many studies of context focus excessively on usage found in the sciences and in everyday observations. Other uses such as promising, giving directions, evaluating (i.e., ranking) all sorts of things around us, expressing our feelings, and issuing declarations (e.g., “You are promoted”) are equally important. The analogy of ‘geography,’ as used in this study, suggests that one important way to study context is to attend to all, not just one, of the “continents” found in the “planet” that we call context. Once we learn our geography lesson, we come to a better understanding of how context can change, how it can be ordered, and how it can be examined. We also learn how layered, and thus how complicated it is.
Nicholas Fotion, emeritus professor of philosophy, Emory University, has authored twelve books and over one hundred articles. Theory and Anti-Theory in Ethics is his most recent book.
