7. Avowals: ‘Grammar’ and Expression

Author: Bar-On, Dorit

Source: Speaking My Mind, November 2004 , pp. 226-285(60)

Publisher: Oxford Scholarship Online Monographs

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Abstract:

This chapter and the next develop a Neo-Expressivist view of avowals, according to which avowals are seen as expressive performances that serve directly to express the self-ascriber’s mental condition, rather than merely to report it. But unlike purely natural expressions (cries, groans), avowals ascribe to the subject the very state the subject expresses. The view is compared and contrasted with Wittgenstein’s ’simple expressivist’ view of avowals, as well as with ethical expressivism.

Keywords: expressivism; expressive behaviour; self-ascription

Document Type: Research article

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