The Role of Speaker and Hearer in the Character of Demonstratives

Speaks, Jeff

doi:10.1093/mind/fzv195

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“…In response to Bach's charge that positing semantic intentions is in general implausible, I 33 See e.g. Stokke (2010), King (2013King ( , 2014aKing ( , 2014b, Speaks (2016Speaks ( , 2017. 34 For a description of the example see footnote 9.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Let us briefly focus on gradable adjectives, such as ‘tall’, which e.g. King (, ), Speaks () and MacFarlane () take to be intention‐sensitive. According to Kennedy's () influential account of gradable adjectives, the context‐sensitive element of their positive form is a function s from adjective meanings to degrees on a scale.…”

Section: Do Speakers Have Semantic Intentions?mentioning

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“…While different versions of this view have been put forward, Intentionalists agree that the semantic value of an intention‐sensitive expression e in a context c is an object o only if the speaker intends o to be the value of e in c (see e.g. Kaplan , Siegel , Åkerman , Stokke , King , , Speaks and Lewerentz & Marschall ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The second objection, put forward by Michael Glanzberg (, ), focuses on just some supposedly intention‐sensitive expressions (namely gradable adjectives), and alleges that their semantic values are too complex to be the object of ordinary speakers’ intentions. The third objection, brought up by Jeff Speaks (), focuses on just some speakers: Speaks argues that while young children can be competent with supposedly intention‐sensitive expressions, they cannot be said to have intentions about such expressions.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Three brief remarks before I begin. Firstly, I will follow King (: n. 3) and Speaks (: 305) in using semantic value to pick out the entity that is semantically associated with an expression, regardless of how precisely the relation of semantic association is spelled out. This will allow me to steer clear of issues concerning certain intention‐sensitive expressions that are orthogonal to the issues of this paper.…”

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Intentionalism is the view that demonstratives, gradable adjectives, quantifiers, modals and other context‐sensitive expressions are intention‐sensitive: their semantic value on a given use is fixed by speaker intentions. The first aim of this paper is to defend Intentionalism against three recent objections, according to which speakers at least sometimes do not have suitable intentions when using supposedly intention‐sensitive expressions. Its second aim is to thereby shed light on the so far little‐explored question of which kinds of intentions can be semantically relevant.

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