TY - JOUR
T1 - Support and evaluation
AU - Dresner, Eli
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - The notion of support is quite heterogeneous: We talk, for example, of pillars providing physical support to a ceiling, of empirical findings providing evidential support to hypotheses, and of one person providing financial support to another. The topic of this note is yet another kind of support, which has received relatively little attention-one person's support of another's action. In what follows I argue that support of this type is best construed (at least in some cases) as a speech act, and I discuss the relations of this kind of speech act to expressions of evaluative judgment.
AB - The notion of support is quite heterogeneous: We talk, for example, of pillars providing physical support to a ceiling, of empirical findings providing evidential support to hypotheses, and of one person providing financial support to another. The topic of this note is yet another kind of support, which has received relatively little attention-one person's support of another's action. In what follows I argue that support of this type is best construed (at least in some cases) as a speech act, and I discuss the relations of this kind of speech act to expressions of evaluative judgment.
KW - Evaluation
KW - Illocutionary force
KW - Speech acts
KW - Support
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84913580902&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.pragma.2014.10.011
DO - 10.1016/j.pragma.2014.10.011
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AN - SCOPUS:84913580902
SN - 0378-2166
VL - 75
SP - 89
EP - 91
JO - Journal of Pragmatics
JF - Journal of Pragmatics
ER -