Pragmatics & rationality

This thesis is about the reconciliation of realistic views of rationality with inferential-intentional theories of communication. Grice (1957 1975) argued that working out what a speaker meant by an utterance is a matter of inferring the speaker's intentions on the presumption that she is actin...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allott, Nicholas Elwyn
Published: University College London (University of London) 2007
Subjects:
100
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.498249