Group speakers

Publication date: Available online 20 March 2019Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Grace PatersonAbstractThis paper examines group speech acts to argue against the view, here called speaker intentionalism, that one is a speaker behind a speech act in virtue of having the relevant communicative illocutionary intention. An alternative view is presented called speaker responsibilism according to which one is a speaker in virtue of having certain responsibilities. Complexities are considered which arise from the kinds of responsibilities the speaker has and the specific ways in which they are acquired.
Source: Language and Communication - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research