And I'll start out with a puzzle, the puzzle of indirect speech acts.

This kind of indirect speech is rampant in language.

Davidson himself contributed many details to such a theory, in essays on quotation, indirect discourse, and descriptions of action.

Speech!

Speech!

The letter, huh?

Where's the letter?

cut it out!

Copy this message.

Have you seen the letter?

Who's got the letter?

The letter, sir.

Who has the letter?

Here it is.

That letter's a forgery.

I wrote the letter.

And the same speech too. Yuk, yuk, yuk.

All right, where's the letter?

Remarkable.

This letter is addressed to you.

The letter can be seen here.

This is the official discourse.

This letter tells you why.

Have you got this letter?

Go ahead and read the letter, Laurie.

Did you write this letter?

Was this the letter?

It's misspelled in the letter.

Sartori, what about that letter?

When did you get the letter?

On the speech, Gorenberg writes

Which brings us to the Open Letter. scoots to super sweet chartreuse throne An Open

We were dismayed when we saw the letter.

There's no discourse anymore.

Oh.

You could get the letter.

The woman does not want to sell the letter.

Ask her if she has the letter.

Who has the letter now?

Everything's in the note.

Then Frank wrote the letter.

Please mail this in the morning.

It's a blind. That letter's no blind.

Let's sit down while Laurie reads the letter.

I have the letter somewhere.