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On an Alleged Connection Between Indirect Speech and the Theory of Meaning
Author(s) -
CAPPELEN HERMAN,
LEPORE ERNIE
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
mind and language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1468-0017
pISSN - 0268-1064
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0017.1997.tb00075.x
Subject(s) - indirect speech , meaning (existential) , speech act , linguistics , connection (principal bundle) , semantic theory of truth , philosophy , philosophy of language , epistemology , psychology , metaphysics , mathematics , geometry
A semantic theory T for a language L should assign content to utterances of sentences of L. One common assumption is that T will assign p to some S of L just in case in uttering S a speaker A says that p. We will argue that this assumption is mistaken.