Meaning and responsibility

In performing an act of assertion we are sometimes responsible for more than the content of the literal meaning of the words we have used, sometimes less. A recently popular research program seeks to explain certain of the commitments we make in speech in terms of responsiveness to the conversationa...

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Published inMind & language Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 809 - 827
Main Authors Buchanan, Ray, Schiller, Henry Ian
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2023
Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
Subjects
assertion
commitment
exculpature
intentionalism
loose talk
Meaning
Responsibility
Responsiveness
Speech
subject matter
Word meaning
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Summary:In performing an act of assertion we are sometimes responsible for more than the content of the literal meaning of the words we have used, sometimes less. A recently popular research program seeks to explain certain of the commitments we make in speech in terms of responsiveness to the conversational subject matter. We raise some issues for this view with the aim of providing a more general account of linguistic commitment: one that is grounded in a more general action‐theoretic notion of responsibility.
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ISSN:0268-1064
1468-0017
DOI:10.1111/mila.12422