creators_name: Akman, Varol
creators_name: Alpaslan, Ferda N.
editors_name:  Bouquet, Paolo
editors_name: Serafini, Luciano
editors_name: Brezillon, Patrick
editors_name: Benerecetti, Massimo
editors_name: Castellani, Francesca
type: confpaper
datestamp: 1999-12-17
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:44
metadata_visibility: show
title: Strawson on Intended Meaning and Context
ispublished: pub
subjects: ling-prag
subjects: ling-sem
subjects: ling-syntax
subjects: phil-lang
full_text_status: public
keywords: Context, P. F. Strawson's philosophy of language, intended meaning, meaning and force of an utterance, literary theory, cultural approaches to the analysis of discourse.
abstract: Strawson proposed in the early seventies an attractive threefold distinction regarding how context bears on the meaning of `what is said' when a sentence is uttered. The proposed scheme is somewhat crude and, being aware of this aspect, Strawson himself raised various points to make it more adequate. In this paper, we review the scheme of Strawson, note his concerns, and add some of our own. However, our main point is to defend the essence of Strawson's approach and to recommend it as a starting point for research into intended meaning and context.
date: 1999
date_type: published
publisher: Springer-Verlag, Berlin
pagerange: 1-14
refereed: FALSE
citation:   Akman, Varol and Alpaslan, Ferda N.  (1999) Strawson on Intended Meaning and Context.  [Conference Paper]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/222/2/context99.ps