AAAI Publications, Twenty-Fifth International FLAIRS Conference
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A. Paquette  Last modified: 2012-05-16   The formal semantics of
speech acts, even in the classical framework of illocutionary
logic, requires considerations that go beyond individual speech
activity and beyond the interpretation of individual sentences.
We show how the formal semantics of speech acts can be extended
to take into account the social effects and interactive aspects
of illocutionary activity. To illustrate our approach, we focus
on the semantics of assertions and descriptive discourse,
contrasting the individual aspect of speaker's meaning and the
epistemic effects of assertion making. The approach presented in
this paper generalizes to all other types of illocutionary acts,
adding specific content to the conversational record that
registers the common ground of speakers and hearers as a
dialogue unfolds.   Speech Acts, Dialogue, Game Theory  Full
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