The Research Seminar Series in Philosophy invites you to a seminar with Ethan Nowak, Umeå University, "Speech acts and sociolinguistic variation".
Abstract: In this paper, I develop and defend a speech act theoretic account of a class of intuitively significant properties of expressions associated with what sociolinguists call ‘social meanings’, and I show how my account puts pressure on the widespread idea that the foremost thing we do with words is exchange information.
All interested are welcome to participate in this seminar.
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