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My dialogue game approach to the use of language in general and the meaning of grammatical moods in particular shares many assumptions with Searle’s theory of speech acts. We both “hypothesize that speaking a language is engaging in a rule-governed form of behavior”, using familiar parlor games as objects of comparison, and subscribe to the view that a theory of (the use of) language is well considered a part of a theory of action.1 It is therefore of interest to see where the most conspicuous differences seem to He between the speech act approach and the language game approach.
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Carlson, L. (1983). Question-Answer Dialogues. In: Dialogue Games. Synthese Language Library, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3963-0_8
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