منابع مشابه
François Recanati , Literal Meaning , Cambridge : Cambridge University
Contrary to a certain traditional conception dating back at least to Locke, everyday linguistic communication is not a simple matter of putting one's thoughts into words for one's audience to put back into thoughts. This naive " code model " misses the fact that what a speaker means in uttering a sentence can be distinct in various ways from what the sentence means. She might not mean what she ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Philosophiques
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0316-2923,1492-1391
DOI: 10.7202/012958ar