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Modal Calculus of Illocutionary Logic

Logic in Computer Science 2011-02-24 v1

Abstract

The aim of illocutionary logic is to explain how context can affect the meaning of certain special kinds of performative utterances. Recall that performative utterances are understood as follows: a speaker performs the illocutionary act (e.g. act of assertion, of conjecture, of promise) with the illocutionary force (resp. assertion, conjecture, promise) named by an appropriate performative verb in the way of representing himself as performing that act. In the paper I proposed many-valued interpretation of illocutionary forces understood as modal operators. As a result, I built up a non-Archimedean valued logic for formalizing illocutionary acts. A formal many-valued approach to illocutionary logic was offered for the first time.

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@article{arxiv.1102.4636,
  title  = {Modal Calculus of Illocutionary Logic},
  author = {Andrew Schumann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.4636},
  year   = {2011}
}

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15 pages

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