In: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2014, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 145-159
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In: Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée, 2010, no. t.2, p. 147-163
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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...
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In: Proceedings of the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the cognitive science society, 2005, vol. XXVII, p. 384-389
We delineate a theory of communicative acts as situated actions, through which agents co-construct the current situation by creating or otherwise manipulating deontic affordances. We rely on Gilbert’s theory of plural subjects to introduce the concept of joint meaning as a type of joint commitment. We then show that our approach allows for an innovative treatment of indirect speech.
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