Roles an utterance can play

Every utterance serves the roles:

• evidence for an inductively constructed version of the language lewisConventionCambridge1969
• an assertion in the language (locutionary) austinHowThingsWords1975
• action to obtain incentives (perlocutionary)

can manipulate:

• representations of reality in the language it's being spoken in farrellCheapTalk1996
  • world
  • agents
  • incentives
  • language
• the language it's being spoken in
  • Epistemic games (textbooks: Blackburn, Modal Logic for Open Minds (Benthem))
  • wittgensteinphilosophical2010, parikhKnowledgeBasedSemantics2003
• instrumental incentives of speaker and listener
  • not terminal?
  • farrellCheapTalk1996