>Dear all,
>Re: Dr. Yus' "One question" dated on 21 May 2001
>I have had a similar idea. In my recent paper, I claim that what is said
by an utterance
>may not be the proposition expressed, but the proposition extended. Here
the proposition
>extended is used for (2) in Dr. Yus' examples. That is, the information
communicated by
>the mood ("basic" speech-act information like saying, asking, telling to
do) should be
>included in what is said. I argued that what is reported in indirect
speech and what is
>echoed in ironical utterances and echo questions are not the proposition
expressed but
>the proposition extended. Above all, in Korean, in indirect speech, the
sentence-type
>suffix of the original utterance is preserved (reported, repeated) In the
embedded clause
>in indirect speech.
>
>My apologies if this idea is absurd or naive.
>Thank you for reading.
>Eun-Ju Noh
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