Meaning and Speech Acts: Volume 1, Principles of Language Use

In Foundations of Illocutionary Logic John Searle and Daniel Vanderveken presented the first formalised logic of a general theory of speech acts. In Meaning and Speech Acts Daniel Vanderveken further develops the logic of speech acts and the logic of propositions to construct a general semantic theory of natural languages. Volume I, Principles of Language Use explains the general principles that connect meaning, reason, thought and speech acts in the semantic structure of language. Volume II, Formal Semantics of Success and Satisfaction uses the resources of philosophical and mathematical logics to develop a formalisation of the laws of the semantic theory advanced in Volume I.Vanderveken, Daniel is the author of 'Meaning and Speech Acts: Volume 1, Principles of Language Use', published 1990 under ISBN 9780521374156 and ISBN 0521374154.