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Bach, Kent. Reference, intention, and context. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198714217.003.0005.

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This chapter takes up some recently published arguments that purport to show that a demonstrative, as used on a given occasion, refers either on account of certain features of the context or in virtue of a certain speaker intention, which is distinct from the sort of referential intention that is part of the speaker’s total communicative intention. After these arguments are disposed of, it is argued that there is no good rationale for maintaining that demonstratives refer in their own right. Rather, they have meanings that constrain their literal use. Speakers can and do use them to refer and

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Ferrari, G. R. F. Dressed to Communicate—Or Not. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198798422.003.0002.

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Intimation is illustrated with an extended example: how we dress. Full-on communication with clothes is rare. The reason is this: unless the audience is already primed for a communication, your clothes must startle if they are to make your communicative intention unmistakable. Most of the messages we send when we dress, fashionably or otherwise, we send as half-on intimations. The chapter concentrates on the intentions of the individual dresser, contenting itself with the metaphor of the cultural ‘brand’ to explain how an entire culture may communicate with its clothes. The point of intimating

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O’Collins, SJ, Gerald. Three ‘Intentions’ to Respect. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824183.003.0009.

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The inspired books of the Bible should be interpreted integrally. This involves respecting not only the ‘intention’ of the human authors who composed the sacred texts (the intentio auctoris), to the extent that this can be established, but also the ‘intention’ of the readers who take up the texts (the intentio legentis) and the ‘intention’ of the text itself (the intentio textus ipsius). We must respect what the original authors wanted to communicate but also acknowledge the insights of subsequent readers and the multiple meanings that emerge from the texts’ reception history. The historical-c

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Bach, Kent. Exaggeration and Invention. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791492.003.0003.

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In Imagination and Convention Lepore and Stone make two sweeping claims about language, convention, and communication. One is that linguistic communication is of what is conventionally encoded. The other, complementary, claim is that when speakers use language in nonconventional ways, their intention is not to communicate some specific thing but rather to invite the hearer into a bit of “imaginative engagement.” So understanding an utterance requires no more than disambiguating it; insofar as imaginative interpretation is required, its aim is distinct from understanding the utterance. I agree

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Stokke, Andreas. Communicating Attitudes. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198825968.003.0010.

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This chapter extends the analysis of insincere language use from the last chapter to non-declarative utterances, including imperative, interrogative, and exclamative utterances. It argues that such utterances communicate information about the speaker’s attitudes. The chapter offers an account of insincerity in the non-declarative realm that is shallow. On this view, a non-declarative utterance is insincere when it is made without a conscious intention to avoid communicating information not matching the speaker’s conscious attitudes. A notion of a communicative act is defined, and the chapter a

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Rollins, Pamela Rosenthal. Developmental Pragmatics. Edited by Yan Huang. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697960.013.6.

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This chapter traces the development of communicative intention, conversation, and narrative in early interaction from infancy to early childhood. True communicative intention commences once the infant acquires the social cognitive ability to share attention and intention with another. The developing child’s pragmatic understanding is reflective of his/her underlying motivations for cooperation and shared intentionality. As children begin to understand others’ mental states, they can take others’ perspectives and understand what knowledge is shared and with whom, moving from joint perceptual fo

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Feldman, Lauren. Assumptions About Science in Satirical News and Late-Night Comedy. Edited by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dan M. Kahan, and Dietram A. Scheufele. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190497620.013.35.

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Because satirical news programs such as The Daily Show and The Colbert Report pay substantial attention to science, this chapter considers their significance as sources of science attitudes and information. The first section of the chapter discusses general attributes of satirical news and how these may help foster public attention to, active engagement with, and understanding of science. The chapter then highlights limitations on the capacity of satire to communicate science, including the challenge of conveying the seriousness of certain science issues while using humor, the potential for au

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Stokke, Andreas. Shallow Insincerity. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198825968.003.0009.

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This chapter argues for a shallow conception of insincerity. It argues that whether an utterance is insincere depends on the speaker’s conscious attitudes toward what is communicated as well as on his or her conscious intentions in making the utterance. Various ways of speaking spontaneously and of speaking without thinking are considered. A broad characterization of insincerity for declarative utterances is set out, according to which a declarative utterance is when it is made without a conscious intention to contribute an answer to a question under discussion that corresponds to one’s consci

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Salter, Diane J. Adolescent understanding of communicative intention in history texts: A developmental analysis. 1997.

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Simons, Mandy. Convention, Intention, and the Conversational Record. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791492.003.0015.

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Lepore and Stone 2015 advocate a view which turns the Gricean picture of meaning on its head: they argue that the most basic type of meaning intention is one which presupposes the notion of conventional meaning. In this essay, I argue that evidence from language acquisition supports the Gricean view, according to which communicative intentions are analytically more basic than linguistic convention. I point out further, though, that Grice’s view recognizes the role of conventionality in meaning, a point neglected in Lepore and Stone’s critique. Lepore and Stone extend their convention-driven vi

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Ferrari, G. R. F. Intimation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198798422.003.0001.

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The communicative scale is introduced. What is fundamental to communication is the intention of the communicator rather than the codes that languages employ. Following the model first proposed by Paul Grice and developed in Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson’s ‘relevance theory’, the structure of communicative intentionality is understood to be recursive: its underlying form is ‘I want you to know that I want you to know’. This leaves room for a simpler kind of transmission, to be called ‘intimation’, whose underlying form would be ‘I want you to know’. If communication is a transmission at the ‘f

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Medlin, Mark. Preadolescent Spiritual Formation: Familial Communicative Processes Leading to Intentional Discipleship. Independently Published, 2020.

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Wray, Alison. The Dynamics of Dementia Communication. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190917807.001.0001.

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Despite a plethora of good advice, it can be hard to sustain effective communicative behaviours when someone is living with a dementia. This book asks why that is. Part 1 explores how various dementia-causing diseases affect the linguistic, pragmatic (reasoning), and memory systems; how social perceptions and practices exacerbate the underlying biological problems; how people living with a dementia describe their experiences; and how dementia care currently addresses the challenges of communication. Part 2 asks why people communicate and what shapes how they communicate. The Communicative Impa

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Bara, Bruno G. Cognitive Pragmatics. Edited by Yan Huang. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697960.013.14.

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Cognitive pragmatics focuses on the mental states and, to some extent, the mental correlates of the participants of a conversation. The analysis of the mental processes of human communication is based on three fundamental concepts: cooperation, sharedness, and communicative intention. All of the three were originally proposed by Grice in 1975, though each has since been refined by other scholars. The cooperative nature of communication is justified by the evolutionary perspective through which the cooperative reasoning underlying a conversation is explained. Sharedness accounts for the possibi

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Krylova, Elvira. COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTIONS OF MODAL PARTICLES IN DANISH. LCC MAKS Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.29003/m2532.978-5-317-06730-4.

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The book focuses on the functional semantics of modal Danish particles in statements varying in structure and lexical content. A comprehensive classification of modal particles, groups of particles and their pragmasemantic invariants is presented based on their speech functions. The functional-semantic analysis enabled to identify the communicative and interactive role of particles which are the most subjective units of the Danish language capable of conveying the subtlest nuances of the speaker's attitude to his own statement, to the interlocutor, to the real situation, or specifying speaker'

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Gračanin, Asmir, Lauren M. Bylsma, and Ad J. J. M. Vingerhoets. The Communicative and Social Functions of Human Crying. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190613501.003.0012.

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Why do humans produce emotional tears? We propose that the answer to this question can be found in the interindividual functions of emotional crying. The basic assumption is that emotional tears represent a means of communication, which has evolved from distress or separation calls displayed by other animals as well. The reactions of others are the crucial factor that pushed forward the evolution of this phylogenetically new behavior. We substantiate this claim by discussing the ontogenetic development of crying, which sets the stage for explaining the ways this signal could have evolved. We f

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Roderick, Munday. 6 Ratification. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198784685.003.0006.

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This chapter concerns the ratification of unauthorized acts. The doctrine of ratification is concerned with acts performed without authority by an agent in the name of a principal. In short, ratification occurs whenever the ratifying party clearly manifests that he has adopted the unauthorized transaction effected by his agent purportedly on his behalf. There is no requirement that this intention must be communicated either to the third party or to the agent. Express ratification is self-explanatory. Implied ratification, however, will take place where either the conduct of the principal or th

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Green, Mitchell S. Assertion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935314.013.8.

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Assertion is here approached as a social practice developed through cultural evolution. This perspective will facilitate inquiry into questions concerning what role assertion plays in communicative life, what norms it is subject to, and whether every viable linguistic community must have a practice of assertion. The author’s evolutionary perspective will further enable us to ask how assertion relates to other communicative practices such as conversational implicature, indirect speech acts, presupposition, and, more broadly, the kinematics of conversation. It will also motivate a resolution of

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Moran, Richard. Speech, Intersubjectivity, and Social Acts. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190873325.003.0001.

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This chapter uses a discussion of Thomas Reid’s characterization of “social acts of mind” to introduce the main themes of the book. Two ways of considering ordinary speech are contrasted: one, speech as a behavioral sign, indicating the states and attitudes of the speaker, and two, speech as a social act that people perform together. The political aspect of being recognized as a speaking subject is discussed in connection with Hobbes and others. This is contrasted with an understanding of testimony that sees it as not essentially different from perception-based knowledge (Quine, Millikan). The

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Lyne, Raphael. Relevance Across History. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794776.003.0003.

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An ostensive-inferential model of communication offers useful tools for organizing our thinking about reading works from the past and practising historicist criticism. Robert Herrick’s ‘Corinna’s going a Maying’ is woven into the religious controversies of its time, but it also accesses more or less timeless traditions in poetry (pastoral; carpe diem). It looks backward into tradition, forward into posterity, and at its immediate context. In order to describe the poem’s different kinds of communication with readers at different temporal and cultural distances, it is useful to see its intention

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Ferrari, G. R. F. The Messages We Send. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198798422.001.0001.

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This is a book about ‘intimations’: social interactions that approach outright communication but do not quite reach it. The controlling metaphor is that of a communicative scale or switch, which goes from ‘off’ (no communication intended) to fully ‘on’ (outright communication). Intimations lie in between. Three intermediate positions are identified: quarter-on, half-on, and three-quarters-on. The metaphor is cashed by appeal to a Gricean model of communication: progression along the communicative scale is determined by the extent to which what comes across in the transmission is required to co

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Hill, Felicity. Excommunication in Thirteenth-Century England. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198840367.001.0001.

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Excommunication was the medieval church’s most severe sanction, used against people at all levels of society. It was a spiritual, social, and legal penalty: Excommunication in Thirteenth-Century England offers a fresh perspective on medieval excommunication by taking a multi-dimensional approach to discussion of the sanction. Using England as a case study, the book analyzes the intentions behind excommunication, how it was perceived and received at both national and local level, and the effects it had upon individuals and society. This book uses a thematic structure to argue that our understan

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Hilary, Putnam. On Content and Context. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198783916.003.0002.

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This chapter explores the ways in which Travis’s ‘context-sensitive semantics’, and the non-reductionist picture of thinking developed in connection with that idea, have influenced some of the central debates in contemporary philosophies of language and mind. The author defends Travis’s occasion-sensitivity against two recent attempts to refute the position. One of these attempts is by Donaldson and Lepore, and the other by Fodor and Lepore. It is argued that semantic atomism and the key role assigned to speakers’ communicative intentions in interpreting utterances, both of which contradict oc

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Gallagher, Shaun. Action and Interaction. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198846345.001.0001.

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Action and Interaction is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the nature of action, starting with questions about action individuation, context, the notion of ?basic action? and the temporal structure of action. The importance of circumstance for understanding action is stressed. These topics lead to questions about intention and the sense of agency and ultimately to the idea that we need to consider action in the social contexts of interaction. The second part looks at the role of interaction in discussions of social cognition, building a contrast between standard theory- of-m

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Mihas, Elena. Imperatives in Ashaninka Satipo (Kampa Arawak) of Peru. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803225.003.0004.

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This chapter’s goal is to survey Ashaninka Satipo (Arawak) commanding communicative moves. It argues that imperatives form a paradigm consisting of the first person cohortative construction with the discourse particle tsame ‘come on’, second person canonical imperative construction characterized by a special intonation, and the third person jussive construction formed either with the intentional =ta on the lexical verb or on the copula kant ‘be this way’. In positive commands, the verbs are inflected for irrealis. The canonical imperative has a negative counterpart, whereas the cohortative and

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Pettit, Philip. The Birth of Ethics. Edited by Kinch Hoekstra. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190904913.001.0001.

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The Birth of Ethics begins from a counterfactual world, Erewhon, where the residents are like us in various respects, including the use of natural language, but lack any sense of ethics or morality. The claim is that the inhabitants of that society would more or less inevitably develop certain practices and concepts, and that this development would effectively make them into moral creatures: agents versed in concepts like those of good and bad, right and wrong, and ready to apply them in assessing and regulating their own behavior and that of others. Anxious to establish their reputations with

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Cave, Terence, and Deirdre Wilson, eds. Reading Beyond the Code. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794776.001.0001.

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This book explores the value for literary studies of relevance theory, an inferential approach to communication in which the expression and recognition of intentions plays a major role. Drawing on a wide range of examples from lyric poetry and the novel, nine of the ten chapters are written by literary specialists and use relevance theory both as an overall framework and as a resource for detailed analysis. The final chapter, written by the co-founder of relevance theory, reviews the issues addressed by the volume and explores their implications for cognitive theories of how communicative acts

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