Keiser, J (2022) Language without information exchange. Mind & Language, 37 (1). pp. 22-37. ISSN 0268-1064
Abstract
This paper attempts to revive a once‐lively program in the philosophy of language—that of reducing linguistic phenomena to facts about mental states and actions. I argue that recent skepticism toward this project is generated by features of traditional implementations of the project, rather than the project itself. A picture of language as essentially a mechanism for cooperative information exchange attracted theorists to metasemantic accounts grounding language use in illocutionary action (roughly, using an utterance to elicit a propositional attitude). When this picture is rejected, a metasemantics grounding language in locutionary action (using an utterance to direct attention) emerges as a more viable proposal, dissolving an intractable issue for traditional theories: the metasemantics of subsentential expressions.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Author. Mind & Language published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. |
Keywords: | convention; Grice; metasemantics; referential indeterminacy |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > School of Philosophy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 14 Jan 2020 10:22 |
Last Modified: | 03 Jan 2023 12:26 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/mila.12303 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:155528 |
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