Sperber,, D;
Wilson, D;
(2015)
Beyond speaker's meaning.
Croatian Journal of Philosophy
, XV
(44)
pp. 117-149.
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Abstract
Our main aim in this paper is to show that constructing an adequate theory of communication involves going beyond Grice’s notion of speaker’s meaning. After considering some of the difficulties raised by Grice’s three-clause definition of speaker’s meaning, we argue that the characterisation of ostensive communication introduced in relevance theory can provide a conceptually unified explanation of a much wider range of communicative acts than Grice was concerned with, including cases of both ‘showing that’ and ‘telling that’, and with both determinate and indeterminate import.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Beyond speaker's meaning |
| Location: | Croatia |
| Publisher version: | http://www.kruzak.hr/?content=emagazines&magazine_... |
| Language: | Croatian |
| Keywords: | communication, showing vs telling, paraphrasability, manifestness, ostension |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Linguistics |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1473423 |
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