?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Joint+Meaning&rft.creator=Carassa%2C+Prof+Antonella&rft.creator=Colombetti%2C+Prof+Marco&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Language&rft.subject=Pragmatics&rft.description=In+this+paper+we+want+to+reconcile+two+apparently+conflicting+intuitions%3A+the+first+is+that+what+a+speaker+means+is+just+a+function+of+his+or+her+communicative+intentions%2C+independently+of+what+the+hearer+understands%2C+and+even+of+the+actual+existence+of+a+hearer%3B+the+second+is+that+when+communication+is+carried+out+successfully%2C+the+resulting+meaning+is%2C+in+some+important+sense%2C+jointly+construed+by+the+speaker+and+the+hearer.+Our+strategy+is+to+distinguish+between+speaker%E2%80%99s+meaning%2C+understood+as+a+personal+communicative+intention%2C+and+joint+meaning%2C+understood+as+a+joint+construal+of+the+speaker+and+the+hearer.+We+define+joint+meaning+as+a+type+of+propositional+joint+commitment%2C+more+precisely+as+the+joint+commitment+of+a+speaker+and+a+hearer+to+the+extent+that+a+specific+communicative+act+has+been+performed+by+the+speaker.+Joint+meaning+is+therefore+regarded+as+a+deontic+concept%2C+which+entails+obligations%2C+rights%2C+and+entitlements%2C+and+cannot+be+reduced+to+epistemic+and+volitional+mental+states+like+personal+belief%2C+common+belief%2C+personal+intention%2C+and+communicative+intention.+&rft.publisher=Elsevier&rft.contributor=Mey%2C+Prof+Jacob&rft.date=2009-09&rft.type=Journal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6611%2F1%2Fpdf_pub4344&rft.identifier=++Carassa%2C+Prof+Antonella+and+Colombetti%2C+Prof+Marco++(2009)+Joint+Meaning.++%5BJournal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6611%2F