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Joint meaning

Carassa, Antonella ; Colombetti, Marco

In: Journal of pragmatics, 2009, vol. 41, no. 9, p. 1837-1854

In this paper we want to reconcile two apparently conflicting intuitions: the first is that what a speaker means is just a function of his or her communicative intentions, independently of what the hearer understands, and even of the actual existence of a hearer; the second is that when communication is carried out successfully, the resulting meaning is, in some important sense, jointly construed...