2. The hybrid theory of mixed quotation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents XI
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Matters of meaning and truth
6. 1. Truth ascriptions, falsity ascriptions, and the paratactic analysis of indirect discourse 17
7. 2. The hybrid theory of mixed quotation 25
8. 3. Self-reference and the divorce between meaning and truth 43
9. 4. Performativity and the “true/false fetish” 49
10. 5. Speaking of truth-telling: The view from wh-complements 73
11. 6. The distance between “here” and “where I am” 86
12. 7. A problem for a logic of “because” 98
13. 8. What “lack” needs to have: A study in the semantics of privation 102
14. 9. A fake typicality constraint on asymmetric acceptability 114
15. 10. Correlative and noncorrelative conjunctions in argument and nonargument positions 126
16. Part II. Matters of meaning and force
17. 11. Yes–no questions and the myth of content invariance 141
18. 12. Deontic trouble in speech act botany 163
19. 13. The gap between speech acts and mental states 169
20. 14. A purported refutation of some theories of assertion 182
21. 15. Two consequences of hinting 192
22. 16. How to test a test for perlocutionary act names 198
23. 17. Speaker meaning, sentence meaning, and metaphor 204
24. 18. Voices and noises in the theory of speech acts 214
25. 19. Searle’s derivation of promissory obligation 255
26. 20. Searle’s Making the Social World 271
27. 21. A paradox of cooperation in the theory of implicatures 278
28. 22. An inferential impasse in the theory of implicatures 285
29. Part III. Knowledge matters
30. 23. How to forget that “know” is factive 299
31. 24. Three problems for the knowledge rule of assertion 312
32. 25. Grammars as objects of knowledge: The availability of dispositionalism 319
33. References 329
34. Index 339