Re: Words that are just speech acts
| From: | Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 25, 2006, 21:33 |
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Den 24. okt. 2006 kl. 19.15 skrev Sai Emrys:
> This is an offshoot of thinking about NLF2DWS.
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> What words are not quite "real" words but rather just speech acts?
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> For example, "yes" and "no" have no real semantic content that I can
> tell appart from their use as a confirmatory or negatory speech act.
Isn't that "real" enough? But I think I see what you mean. They
belong with interjections, words that function more or less outside
symbolic language, sending emotional messages, signals that most
animals are able to send. Maybe they are *more* real than other words.
LEF