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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. Green open access

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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
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: http://www.kruzak.hr/?content=emagazines&magazine_...
Language: Croatian
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Communication, showing vs telling, paraphrasability, manifestness, ostension
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1473423
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