Conclusions of Practical Argument

A Speech Act Analysis

Bibliographic Data

ID5824611
AuthorsMarcin Lewiński (0000-0002-7218-3948, Nova Institut, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume28
Issue2
Pages420-457
Publication date2021-05-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOrganon F (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1335-0668 • E-ISSN: 2585-7150
PublisherCentral Library of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.31577/orgf.2021.28207
OpenAlexW3166239372
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited11

Conclusions of theoretical reasoning are assertions-or at least speech acts belonging to the class of assertives, such as hypotheses, predictions or estimates.What, however, are the conclusions of practical reasoning?Employing the concepts of speech act theory, in this paper I investigate which speech acts we perform when we're done with an instance of a practical argument and present its result in a linguistic form.To this end, I first offer a detailed scheme of practical argument suitable for an external pragmatic account (rather than an internal cognitive account).Resorting to actual examples, I then identify a class of actioninducing speech acts as characteristic conclusions of practical argument.I argue that these speech acts-promises, orders, pieces of advice, proposals, and others-differ chiefly depending on the agent of the action induced (me, us, you, them) and their illocutionary strength

Argument (complex analysis · Indirect speech · Speech act · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation

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