title: Joint Meaning
creator: Carassa, Prof Antonella
creator: Colombetti, Prof Marco
subject: Philosophy of Language
subject: Pragmatics
description: 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 by the speaker and the hearer. Our strategy is to distinguish between speaker’s meaning, understood as a personal communicative intention, and joint meaning, understood as a joint construal of the speaker and the hearer. We define joint meaning as a type of propositional joint commitment, 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, which entails obligations, rights, and entitlements, and cannot be reduced to epistemic and volitional mental states like personal belief, common belief, personal intention, and communicative intention. 
publisher: Elsevier
contributor: Mey, Prof Jacob
date: 2009-09
type: Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/6611/1/pdf_pub4344
identifier:   Carassa, Prof Antonella and Colombetti, Prof Marco  (2009) Joint Meaning.  [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/6611/