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  Research Group Communicative Understanding
  Project 3: Speech Act and Interpretation
   Project leader: Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer
   Assistant: Frank Kannetzky

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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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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.

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