Speaker systems
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation is concerned with the question of what it means to be a speaker, by which I mean the kind of thing which can perform speech acts. It is, in this way, a study in the foundations of speech act theory. The first two chapters are mainly concerned with conceptual engineering while the last two make use of the framework in understanding other thorny kinds of speech act. Ch.1 lays out the central problem and establishes some of the fundamental distinctions and tools that will help us understand what it is that goes into the production and performance of a speech act. Ch. 2 examines proxy speech (when one agent ``speaks for'' another), using such cases to motivate some more essential distinctions. Ch.3 applies the tools introduced in the earlier chapters to the analysis of group speech acts, in particular marking important differences between group collaboration through speech acts, group co-authoring of speech acts, and group speech proper. These differences register when we take into account the different speaker roles and their normative significance. Finally, Ch.4 examines the way in which one may manipulate speaker systems, and thereby anonymize a speech act in a communicatively significant manner.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Paterson, Grace |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Taylor, Kenneth Allen, 1954-2019 |
| Thesis advisor | Taylor, Kenneth Allen, 1954-2019 |
| Thesis advisor | Bratman, Michael |
| Thesis advisor | Lawlor, Krista |
| Degree committee member | Bratman, Michael |
| Degree committee member | Lawlor, Krista |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Philosophy. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Grace Paterson. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Philosophy. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Grace Doris Paterson
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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