Bach's Minuet

Abstract for K. Bach's essay in "Handbook":

"This paper surveys topics in philosophical pragmatics, including communication, conversational implicature (and impliciture), performative utterances, and speech acts generally. It takes up J. L. Austin's distinction between locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts, distinguishes conventional from communicative illocutionary acts, and sketches a taxonomy of illocutionary acts. The paper then compares three common ways of formulating the semantic/pragmatic distinction, examines concepts relevant to these formulations, and offers its own formulation. Finally, the semantic/pragmatic distinction is applied to various philosophically important concepts, thereby illustrating Paul Grice's and John Searle's well-known critiques of ordinary language philosophy."