Speech Acts, Meaning and Intentions: Critical Approaches to the Philosophy of John R. Searle

✍ Scribed by Armin Burkhardt (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 436
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Historical Roots of Speech Act Theory
Barry Smith: Towards a history of speech act theory
John F. Crosby: Speech act theory and phenomenology
2. Speech Act Theory between Semantics and Pragmatics
Armin Burkhardt: Speech act theory – the decline of a paradigm
Gabriel Falkenberg: Searle on sincerity
Eckard Rolf: On the concept of action in illocutionary logic
3. Speech Act Theory and Intentionality
Robert M. Harnish: Speech acts and intentionality
Frank W. Liedtke: Representational semantics and illocutionary acts
Wilhelm Baumgartner/Jörg Klawitter: Intentionality of perception. An inquiry concerning J. R. Searle’s conception of intentionality with appeal to Husserl
4. Meaning
Jerrold J. Katz: Literal meaning and logical theory
Michael J. Evans/Rainer Wimmer: Searle’s theory of proper names, from a linguistic point of view
Carlo Marletti: Congruence and modulation in propositional attitudes
5. Theory of Metaphor and Fictional Discourse Armin Burkhardt: Searle on metaphor
Anne Reboul: The logical status of fictional discourse: what Searle’s speaker can’t say to his hearer
6. Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science
Dieter Münch: Minds, brains and cognitive science
Manfred Bierwisch: Perspectives on mind, brain, and language: Linguistics as a cognitive science or Touring the Chinese room again