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The Projects and their Members
Current and Future Activities
Activities up to now
Project Description
Project 1: Reconstructing Speech Act Theory
Project 2: Pragmatic Implications
Project 3: Speech Act and Interpretation
Project 4: Explanatory Coherence
Project 5: Computational Dialectics
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Although it is not easy to obtain a full overview of the literature on speech
act theory (SAT) in philosophy of language and linguistics, there are only a
few contributions that belong explicitly to its theoretical foundations. In
particular, the task of reconstructing SAT with the help of communication
theory is still in its infancy. It is the aim of our project to provide such a
reconstruction.
The questions and concept formations of SAT were primarily concerned with
different usages of linguistic expressions – supposing a meaning already given.
Especially in that respect, the intentionalistic communication theory (going
back to Paul Grice’s ideas) which the project is based on differs from SAT.
According to that theory, the concept of conventional/linguistic meaning of
actions, and finally also of expressions, is explicated on the basis of general
notions of communicative actions (which do not involve concepts of
conventional/linguistic meaning). With the help of that account, the category
of illocutions dominant in SAT will be precisely determined, and the
difficulties in delimiting them, e.g., from merely propositional and
perlucotionary effects, will be dissolved.
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