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| Über Bedeutung Eicker, Victoria |
| Main title | Über Bedeutung |
| Subtitle | Sprache zwischen Intentionen und Konventionen |
| Title variations | Meaning |
| Subtitle for translated title | Language between intentions and conventions |
| Author(s) | Eicker, Victoria
Place of birth: Valencia, Spanien |
| 1. Referee | Prof. Dr. Sybille Krämer |
| Further Referee(s) | Prof. Dr. Ekkehard König |
| Keywords | meaning, intention, convention, language, philosophy |
| Classification (DDC) | 100 Philosophy and psychology |
| Summary | A central question in the philosophy of language concerns the nature of lin-guistic meaning. This question introduces the uncertainty about how lan-guage functions, and whether it is language that functions and not rather communication, the act of communicating, the usage of language in which meaning happens. The thesis About Meaning. Language between Intentions and Conventions treats these questions and attempts to bridge the gap between intentional and conventional approaches to the explanation of linguistic meaning. The thesis is embedded in the approach of speech act theory and its effort to ex-plain linguistic meaning as far as it concerns speaker intentions and conven-tions. It is not the aim of this project to explain what linguistic meaning is but to explain how it is to be positioned in this debate. The central analysis of the thesis concerns the concepts of meaning and un-derstanding. To deal with these concepts a model is designed which con-cerns the trias of meaning situated between speaker intentions and linguis-tic conventions, to define the concepts to mean and to understand. Instead of meaning, the trias of meaning implies speaker, hearer and utterance mean-ing, which portray the different and temporal condensations of a circulating process of linguistic meaning within interactive situations of communication. To demonstrate the model of the trias of meaning a debate within ordinary language philosophy is analysed. The speech act is seen as the fundamental unit of linguistic communication and meaning is discussed between the poles of intentionalism and conventionalism. The central philosophers dis-cussed are Grice, Searle and Savigny which mark in a synthesis the three edges of the model of the trias of meaning. The question addressed is, what exactly happens in the moment of commu-nication, in which a speaker means something and a hearer understands the intended meaning. To answer this question the concept of linguistic meaning in accord with speech act theory is assumed, where linguistic meaning is a propositional content, formed in lexical units which follow rules and conven-tions, uttered in phonetical units, and which becomes, in interaction with the process of meaning, something intended to be understood by an ad-dressee. This more static concept of linguistic meaning shall becomes dy-namic under the model of the trias of meaning which points out the circulat-ing process of meaning and understanding. Within communication where language is used, systematic and interactive aspects become interlocked so that questions such as whether language is a system or an action cannot be answered. The system of language flows within the dynamic of the practice of meaning and understanding, and en-ters in a state of flux of interaction where it loses its solid, universal outline. Communication seen with reference to the model of the trias of meaning makes it impossible to find the linguistic meaning. However language as a store of rule-governed and conventional sample applications is an operative effective fiction, albeit with communication existing beyond. |
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| FU Department | Department of Philosophy and Humanities |
| Year of publication | 2005 |
| Document type | Doctoral thesis |
| Media type/Format | Text |
| Language | German |
| Terms of use/Rights | Nutzungsbedingungen |
| Date of defense | 2005-07-05 |
| Created at | 2005-08-21 : 12:00:00 |
| Last changed | 2010-02-19 : 11:51:28 |
| Old Darwin URL | http://www.diss.fu-berlin.de/2005/235/ |
| Static URL | http://www.diss.fu-berlin.de/diss/receive/FUDISS_thesis_000000001706 |
| NBN | urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-2005002353 |
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