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HOT Theories of Meaning: The Link Between Language and Theory of Mind
Author(s) -
REBOUL ANNE
Publication year - 2006
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.1468-0017.2006.00293.x
Subject(s) - counterexample , meaning (existential) , argument (complex analysis) , linguistics , psychology , link (geometry) , epistemology , philosophy , mathematics , biochemistry , chemistry , discrete mathematics , combinatorics
Glüer and Pagin (2003) have claimed that autistic speakers are a counterexample to HOT theories of meaning and communication. Through analysis of their argument and a re‐examination of the literature, I show that autistic speakers are not a counterexample to HOT theories, but, conversely, that such theories are necessary to account for their communicative peculiarities.