Presentation 2016-12-17
Sincerity Condition Revisited: Truth or Dare?
Sachiko Shudo,
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Abstract(in English) Some speech acts, such as apologizing and thanking, involve psychological states of the speaker. The relationships between the speech acts and the corresponding psychological states have been explained under the label of "sincerity condition" (Searle 1969, 1979). The sincerity condition is a condition such that, if the speaker is sincere (IF SS) in doing the speech act, the condition is supposed to be satisfied. In this talk, I will attempt to investigate what is really meant by the sincerity condition. I will particularly focus on that aspect of the sincerity condition that delivers the information that satisfies the sincerity condition with the IF SS condition. Using examples of apology, I will claim that how the prosody in apology signals the sincerity condition and how the hearer judges it involve both natural and non-natural meanings (Grice 1957).
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Keyword(in English) speech actsincerity conditionmeaningtruthapologynatural meaningnon-natural meaning
Paper # TL2016-56
Date of Issue 2016-12-09 (TL)

Conference Information
Committee TL
Conference Date 2016/12/16(3days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Room 303/304/305, Building #8, Waseda University
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Theme 1: Language and Learning, Theme 2: Co-creation in a place, Emergence of meaning
Chair Masami Suzuki(KDDI Research, Inc.)
Vice Chair Chiaki Kubomura(Yamano College of Aesthetics)
Secretary Chiaki Kubomura(Ehime Univ.)
Assistant Yasushi Tsubota(Kyoto Inst. of Tech.) / Nobuyuki Jincho(Waseda Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Thought and Language
Language ENG
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Sub Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Title (in English) Sincerity Condition Revisited: Truth or Dare?
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) speech actsincerity conditionmeaningtruthapologynatural meaningnon-natural meaning
1st Author's Name Sachiko Shudo
1st Author's Affiliation Waseda University(Waseda Univ.)
Date 2016-12-17
Paper # TL2016-56
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) TL-368
Page pp.pp.101-104(TL),
#Pages 4
Date of Issue 2016-12-09 (TL)