On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 12:22:25 -0800, Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>
wrote:
>I don't affirm that I've found everything by myself !
>I'm just trying to summarize and do some kind of
>synthesis from what I've read here and there (and turn
>it into intelligible language), thought about and
>decided it didn't look quite silly after all.
>
>--- Estel Telcontar <estel_telcontar@...> wrote:
>> Andrew Patterson ha tera a:
>> [concerning Philippe Caquant's theory]
>>
>> > I think that U are on to sth here. An original
>> theory.
>>
>> Ah. But is it really original? It seems very
>> similar to something we
>> talked about in my semantics class last term... I
>> can't tell exactly
>> how close it is without looking it up, which I'm not
>> gunna do, though.
>>
>> Estel (still nomail)
>>
>>
>Would it be anything to do with illocutionary points and force?
Look up this website:
http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/
WhatIsAnIllocutionaryPoint.htm
Note the 2nd line is still part of the website, or U might just navigate
from sil.org
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