Mechanisms of illocutionary games

Witek, Maciej

doi:10.1016/j.langcom.2015.01.007

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“…However, most such extensions typically involve pathological features that have hindered a thorough understanding of their implications, especially in regimes where deviations from GR would be largest. Recently, several different ideas have been suggested as possible paths forward in this endeavour [29,36,41] and first steps are being taken [41][42][43][44]. In this work, we exploited a toy-model which -from an EFT point of view-evidences many of such pathologies, but within a known UV-complete theory.…”

Section: Observations and Final Commentsmentioning

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Towards the nonlinear regime in extensions to GR: assessing possible options

Allwright

Lehner

2019

Class. Quantum Grav.

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Testing General Relativity and exploring possible departures has received further input with the possibility to do so through gravitational waves emitted in strongly gravitating/highly dynamical scenarios and also through the availability of exquisitely sensitive cosmological observations. However, most extensions suffer from severe pathologies at the mathematical level which have stymied a thorough exploration of putative theories. With the aid of a model problem which captures typical pathologies, we explore suggested methods to control them. We find that the approach that modifies the equations to control higher-order gradients is both robust and efficient. arXiv:1808.07897v1 [gr-qc]

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Section: Observations and Final Commentsmentioning

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Towards the nonlinear regime in extensions to GR: assessing possible options

Allwright

Lehner

2019

Class. Quantum Grav.

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“…In the process of acts identification, the acts particularly prone to errors are the implicit ones, i.e. indirect speech acts, 42 and what is easy to notice, most utterances recalled in this article are of this specific nature. This is because in general, in the case of indirect speech acts, there is the possibility to "waive" an implicit meaning [1: 183 sqq.].…”

Section: Some Other Specific Traits Of Procedural Acts and The Procesmentioning

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Procedural Acts as Double-Conventionalized Acts: Considerations on Conventional Acts Performed in a Courtroom Discourse

Gmerek

2020

Int J Semiot Law

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The subject of interest of this article is procedural acts considered as double-conventionalized acts. It is assumed in this article that in the case of procedural acts, one can distinguish two levels of conventionalization: (1) the level of a speech act and (2) the level of a procedural act. Both above-mentioned levels affect each other in various ways, what is discussed in the article. As assumed in the article, the analysis of acts characterized by this particular trait (double conventionalization) and with due account of this trait allows one to observe phenomena that can be hard or even impossible to notice in the process of analyzing acts that are deprived of this trait. Furthermore, it seems that the description of this type of acts may particularly enrich the current discussion on some properties of speech acts held on the grounds of philosophy of language or pragmalinguistics. The research material used in this article as an illustration consists of actual utterances of participants of Polish court proceedings used by them at a hearing.

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“…A key idea behind the score-keeping model of illocutionary games (Witek 2015c) is that speech acts in general and illocutionary acts in particular can be categorized by reference to how they affect the context or state of conversation. In short, speech acts are "context-changing social actions" (Sbisà 2002, p. 421) that can be represented as functions "from contexts into contexts" (Gazdar 1981, p. 68).…”

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“…The felicity of the exercitive act under discussion presupposes Jones's authority as master; in other words, his authority is an Austinian presupposition of the act (Austin 1975, p. 48n;cf. Corredor 2017;Witek 2013aWitek , 2015c and as such contributes to the source score-let us refer to it as 'Sc S (1)'-relative to which Jones's conversational move is to be interpreted and evaluated. The exercitive takes effect by enacting a new norm for Smith or, in other words, by shifting the boundary between what he is and what he is not permitted to do; the new permissibility fact thereby created contributes to the target score-let us refer to it as 'Sc T (1)'-that represents the state of conversation as affected by Jones's utterance.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As Lewiński (2017) notes, it covers propositions and acts of their acceptance, claims and their discursive statuses, inferences and their conclusions, procedures and the decisions based on them, rules and the practices they govern, and so on. The central idea behind the proposed account is that at least some of the above-mentioned phenomena can be adequately understood and explained using a score-keeping model of illocutionary games (Witek 2015c), which results from integrating elements of Austin's (1975) theory of speech acts within the framework of Lewis's (1979) model of conversational kinematics. I also assume, following Walton (1993) and Corredor (2017), that to presume something is to make a conversational move understood as an illocutionary act, the force of which is to be characterised by reference to the way it modifies the distribution of the burden of proof among the participants in a dialogue.…”

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Illocution and accommodation in the functioning of presumptions

Witek

2019

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In this paper, I develop a speech-act based account of presumptions. Using a scorekeeping model of illocutionary games, I argue that presumptions construed as speech acts can be grouped into three illocutionary act types defined by reference to how they affect the state of a conversation. The paper is organized into two parts. In the first one, I present the score-keeping model of speech act dynamics; in particular, I distinguish between two types of mechanisms-the direct mechanism of illocution and the indirect one of accommodation-that underlie the functioning of illocutionary acts. In the second part, I use the presented model to distinguish between (1) the unilateral act of individual presumption, the point of which is to shift the burden of proof by making the hearer committed to justifying his refusal to endorse the proposition communicated by the speaker, whenever he refuses to endorse it, (2) the bilateral act of joint presumption-'bilateral' in that it is performed jointly by at least two conversing agents-the function of which is to confer on the proposition endorsed by the speaker the normative status of jointly recognized though tentative acceptability, and (3) the indirect or back-door act of collective presumption, the purpose of which is to sustain rules and practices to which the conversing agents defer the felicity of their conversational moves.

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Mechanisms of illocutionary games

Cited by 22 publications

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Towards the nonlinear regime in extensions to GR: assessing possible options

Towards the nonlinear regime in extensions to GR: assessing possible options

Procedural Acts as Double-Conventionalized Acts: Considerations on Conventional Acts Performed in a Courtroom Discourse

Illocution and accommodation in the functioning of presumptions

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