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What is Said

A Theory of Indirect Speech Reports

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  • © 1990

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Authors:
  1. Rod Bertolet

    1. Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 49)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Approaches to Natural Language

    • Rod Bertolet
    Pages 1-29

  3. Indexicality

    • Rod Bertolet
    Pages 30-58

  4. Alternate Approaches

    • Rod Bertolet
    Pages 59-84

  5. Prolegomenon to a Theory of Speaker Reference

    • Rod Bertolet
    Pages 85-101

  6. Speaker Reference

    • Rod Bertolet
    Pages 102-139

  7. Predication, and What is Said

    • Rod Bertolet
    Pages 140-172

  8. Concerning Fiction and Fictions

    • Rod Bertolet
    Pages 173-218

  9. Further Implications

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    Pages 219-234

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 235-254
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The notion of what someone says is, perhaps surprisingly, some­ what less clear than we might be entitled to expect. Suppose that I utter to my class the sentence 'I want you to write a paper reconciling the things Russell claims about propositions in The Philosophy of Mathematics for next week'. A student who was unable to get up in time for class that day asks another what I said about the assignment. Several replies are in the offing. One, an oratio recta or direct speech report, is 'He said, "I want you to write a paper reconciling the things Russell claims about propositions in The Philosophy of Mathematics for next week. '" Another, an oratio obliqua or indirect speech report, consists in the response 'He said that he wants us to write a paper reconciling . . . '. Yet another, reflecting a perhaps accurate estimate of the task involved, editorializes: 'He said he wants us to do the impossible'. Or, aware of both this and my quaint custom of barring those who have not successfully completed the assignment from the classroom, one might retort 'He said he doesn't want to meet next week'. Since 'says' is construable in these various ways, it is at best unhelpful to write something like 'Alice said "Your paper is two days late", thereby saying that Tom's paper was two days late.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

    Rod Bertolet

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: What is Said

  • Book Subtitle: A Theory of Indirect Speech Reports

  • Authors: Rod Bertolet

  • Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2061-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0792-1Published: 30 June 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7425-4Published: 05 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2061-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0921-8599

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 254

  • Topics: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Semantics

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