pronouns and imperatives

[Celso Alvarez Caccamo]

Hi,

Margaret Field says,

> In the past, linguists often counted "problem statements"
> like "I'm hungry" or "it broke" as examples of indirect
> directives as well, especially on the part of children, but
> as Ervin-Tripp points out in a more recent paper (sorry I
> don't have access to my references at the moment, but can
> send them to interested parties later), this interpretation
> perhaps attributes more intention than may
> actually be there, much of the time).

Sue (or whoever), I'm curious, at about what age does "more
intention" start to enter such types of (indirect?)
illocutionary acts (not only directives)? How did you come to
conclude that? In any particular way different from any
typical reconstruction of inferences in indirect acts in
general?

Thanks,
-celso

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