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Utterance Interpretation and Actual Intentions
Stockholms universitet, Filosofiska institutionen.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6265-2205
Number of Authors: 12021 (English)In: Axiomathes, ISSN 1122-1151, E-ISSN 1572-8390, no 31, p. 279-298Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this paper I argue, from the consideration of what I hope is the complete variety of a hearer's approaches to a speaker's utterance, that (1) the speaker's intention does not settle the meaning of her utterance and (2) the hearer does not take a genuine interest in the speaker's actual intention. The reason why the speaker's intention does not settle utterance meaning is simply that no utterance meaning determination, as presupposed by intentionalists and anti-intentionalists alike, takes place. Moreover, in the regular course of interpretation the hearer does not care about the speaker's actual intention, but only about what the speaker presents as her intention: the hearer's goal is to come up with an interpretation which the speaker will accept rather than an interpretation which corresponds to the speaker's intention. In cases of accountability, suspicion and lying, the speaker's actual intention is irrelevant; it is at most the speaker's hypothetical intention which is at stake.

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2021. no 31, p. 279-298
Keywords [en]
Utterance, Meaning, Interpretation, Intentions, Context, Semantics, Pragmatics, Interaction, Accountability
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Philosophy, Ethics and Religion Languages and Literature
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-43217DOI: 10.1007/s10516-019-09462-xISI: 000494781900001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:du-43217DiVA, id: diva2:1711319
Available from: 2019-12-17 Created: 2022-11-16 Last updated: 2022-11-22Bibliographically approved

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