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Beyond speaker's meaning

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
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
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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.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1473423
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