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		Research Group Communicative Understanding
		Project 3: Speech Act and Interpretation
		Project leader: Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer    Assistant: Frank Kannetzky
General Information 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 Guests Papers		The discussion of communicative understanding is dominated by two approaches at the moment. On the one hand there are intentionalist theories, on the other conventionalist or rule based theories. In the first type speakers intentions are considered as substantial. Such theories usually are connected with methodological individualism. The latter theories regard utterances as meaningful only due to their embedding in a whole system of (intention-independent) rules and conventions. Persons become speakers only by their membership in a language-community and participation in the correspondending practices. How to judge these (and other) approaches to communicative understanding? And how are theories of meaning and theories of communicative understanding related to each other? How could one identify intentions? Such methodological and metatheoretical questions are central to our project. We believe that a pragmatist point of view (especially R. Brandom's) could help to solve these problems. As a first step we are going to prepare  a general pragmatic frame to classify theories of communicative understanding. Details
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