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Making Semantics Pragmatic
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SYSNO ASEP 0364686 Document Type M - Monograph Chapter R&D Document Type Monograph Chapter Title The Use- Theory of Meaning and the Rules of Our Languge Games Author(s) Peregrin, Jaroslav (FLU-F) RID, ORCID, SAI Source Title Making Semantics Pragmatic. - Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2011 / Turner K. - ISSN 1472-7870 - ISBN 978-0-85724-909-8 Pages s. 183-204 Number of pages 22 s. Number of copy 500 Number of pages 227 Language eng - English Country GB - United Kingdom Keywords rules ; language games ; use-theory of meaning ; inference Subject RIV AA - Philosophy ; Religion CEZ AV0Z90090514 - FLU-F (2005-2011) UT WOS 000304604900008 Annotation While most theoreticians of meaning in the first half of the twentieth century subscribed to a representational theory, the second half of the century was marked by the rise of various versions of use-theories of meaning. Though it is now rather popular to invoke the use-theory of meaning, it is by far not so popular to inquire what such a theory really is. In this paper we try to give at least a part of the answer, whereby we find out that the usual conception of such a theory is unsatisfactory. We propose that for an improvement we must conceive language as a (tool of a) rule-based activity, which enables us to replace the concept of disposition, usually constituting the backbone of the use-theory, by the concept of propriety. The resulting normative version of the use-theory then becomes the investigation of the rules which expressions acquire vis-a-vis the rules of the relevant language games – especially of the rules of inference. Workplace Institute of Philosophy Contact Chlumská Simona, chlumska@flu.cas.cz ; Tichá Zuzana, asep@flu.cas.cz Tel: 221 183 360 Year of Publishing 2012
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