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Hence, Austin developed a theory of speech acts, which described the kinds of things which can be done with a sentence (assertion, command, inquiry, exclamation) in different contexts of use on different occasions.[52] Strawson argued that the truth-table semantics of the logical connectives (e.g., {\displaystyle \land } \land, {\displaystyle \lor } \lor and {\displaystyle \rightarrow } \rightarrow ) do not capture the meanings of their natural language counterparts ("and", "or" and "if-then").[53] While the "ordinary language" movement basically died out in the 1970s, its influence was crucial to the development of the fields of speech-act theory and the study of pragmatics. Many of its ideas have been absorbed by theorists such as Kent Bach, Robert Brandom, Paul Horwich and Stephen Neale.[9] In recent work, the division between semantics and pragmatics has become a lively topic of discussion at the interface of philosophy and linguistics, for instance in work by Sperber and Wilson, Carston and Levinson.