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Expressive Content and Speaker Dependence. / Stevens, Graham; Duckett, Nathan.

In: Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, Vol. 18, 10.08.2018, p. 97-112.

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Stevens, G & Duckett, N 2018, 'Expressive Content and Speaker Dependence', Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, vol. 18, pp. 97-112. https://doi.org/10.22381/LPI1820195

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Stevens, G., & Duckett, N. (2018). Expressive Content and Speaker Dependence. Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, 18, 97-112. https://doi.org/10.22381/LPI1820195

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Stevens G, Duckett N. Expressive Content and Speaker Dependence. Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations. 2018 Aug 10;18:97-112. https://doi.org/10.22381/LPI1820195

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Stevens, Graham ; Duckett, Nathan. / Expressive Content and Speaker Dependence. In: Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations. 2018 ; Vol. 18. pp. 97-112.

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title = "Expressive Content and Speaker Dependence",
abstract = "Expressives are lexical items which encode attitudes. Original semantic theories for expressives assumed that this attitude was always the speaker{\textquoteright}s, however, a number of apparent counter-examples have motived recent theorists to endorse the view that expressives can be shifted to non-speaker-oriented readings under which they express attitudes of a salient judge, distinct from the speaker. We argue that this rejection of speaker dependence for expressives is too hasty, arguing that: (1) the counter-examples are uncon- vincing, and (2) reflection on other puzzling uses of expressives that we introduce here suggest that speaker dependence ought to be preserved as a universal semantic feature of expressive content. Apparent cases of perspective shifting, we argue, are best understood as resulting from pragmatic, rather than semantic, operations.",
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