Occasion-Sensitivity: Selected Essays [Book Review]

Disputatio 4 (31):309-315 (2011)
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This is not a critical review of Travis' book. It's an attempt to summarize the key thesis (occasion-sensitivity) in a way that makes the book accessible and distinguishes it from similar looking theses (such as relevance theory and truth-conditional pragmatics).

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10.2478/disp-2011-0017

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