Gricean communication and transmission of thoughts
Erkenntnis 69 (1):55 - 67 (2008)
| Abstract | Gricean communication is communication between utterers and their audiences, where the utterer means something and the audience understands what is meant. The weak transmission idea is that, whenever such communication takes place, there is something which is transmitted from utterer to audience; the strong transmission idea adds that what is transmitted is nothing else than what is communicated. We try to salvage these ideas from a seemingly forceful attack by Wayne Davis. Davis attaches too much significance to the surface structure of sentences of the type ‘S communicates the belief (desire …) that p to A’ by assuming that the communicated entity is denoted by the grammatical object following ‘communicates’. On our proposal, what is communicated in all Gricean cases is a thought. And since S communicates the thought that p to A only if S means that p and A understands what S means, the thought that p will be transmitted from S to A. | |||||||||
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,865 |
| External links |
 |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesKepa Korta & John Perry (2008). The Pragmatic Circle. Synthese 165 (3):347 - 357.
Kevin Scharp (forthcoming). Brandom on Communication. In Jason Hannon & Robert Rutland (eds.), Philosophical Profiles in the Theory of Communication. McGill-Queen's University Press.
Jonathan M. Smith (2007). Time-Binding Communication: Transmission and Decadence of Tradition. Ethics, Place and Environment 10 (1):107 – 119.
Yasuhiko Murakami (2013). Affection of Contact and Transcendental Telepathy in Schizophrenia and Autism. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 12 (1):179-194.
Youru Wang (2000). The Pragmatics of 'Never Tell Too Plainly': Indirect Communication in Chan Buddhism. Asian Philosophy 10 (1):7 – 31.
Carole J. Lee (2006). Gricean Charity: The Gricean Turn in Psychology. Philosophy of the Social Sciences 36 (2):193-218.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2009-01-28Total downloads28 ( #44,838 of 556,807 )Recent downloads (6 months)1 ( #64,847 of 556,807 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
