Acts of Meaning

Acts of Meaning
Author: Jerome Bruner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0674253051

Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as “information processor,” has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind can we grasp the special interaction through which mind both constitutes and is constituted by culture.

Acts of Meaning

Acts of Meaning
Author: Jerome Bruner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1990
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780674003613

Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its fixation on a computational model of mind, has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations of this model can we grasp the interaction through which mind both constitutes and is constituted by culture.

Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning

Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning
Author: William P. Alston
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2015-08-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1501700413

What is it for a sentence to have a certain meaning? This is the question that the distinguished analytic philosopher William P. Alston addresses in this major contribution to the philosophy of language. His answer focuses on the given sentence's potential to play the role that its speaker had in mind, what he terms the usability of the sentence to perform the illocutionary act intended by its speaker.Alston defines an illocutionary act as an act of saying something with a certain "content." He develops his account of what it is to perform such acts in terms of taking responsibility, in uttering a sentence, for the existence of certain conditions. In requesting someone to open a window, for example, the speaker takes responsibility for its being the case that the window is closed and that the speaker has an interest in its being opened.In Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning, Alston expands upon this concept, creating a framework of five categories of illocutionary act and going on to argue that sentence meaning is fundamentally a matter of illocutionary act potential; that is, for a sentence to have a particular meaning is for it to be usable to perform illocutionary acts of a certain type. In providing detailed and explicit patterns of analysis for the whole range of illocutionary acts, Alston makes a unique contribution to the field of philosophy of language—one that is likely to generate debate for years to come.

Meaning and Speech Acts: Volume 1, Principles of Language Use

Meaning and Speech Acts: Volume 1, Principles of Language Use
Author: Daniel Vanderveken
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1990-09-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521374156

In Meaning and Speech Acts Daniel Vanderveken further develops the logic of speech acts and the logic of propositions to construct a general semantic theory of natural languages.

Expression and Meaning

Expression and Meaning
Author: John R. Searle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 1979
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521313933

A direct successor to Searle's Speech Acts (C.U.P. 1969), Expression and Meaning refines earlier analyses and extends speech-act theory to new areas including indirect and figurative discourse, metaphor and fiction.

The Acts of the Apostles

The Acts of the Apostles
Author: P.D. James
Publisher: Canongate Books
Total Pages: 93
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 0857861077

Acts is the sequel to Luke's gospel and tells the story of Jesus's followers during the 30 years after his death. It describes how the 12 apostles, formerly Jesus's disciples, spread the message of Christianity throughout the Mediterranean against a background of persecution. With an introduction by P.D. James

Speech Acts, Meaning and Intentions

Speech Acts, Meaning and Intentions
Author: Armin Burkhardt
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2010-09-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110859483

Speech Acts, Meaning and Intentions: Critical Approaches to the Philosophy of J.R. Searle (Foundations of Communication and Cognition).

Acts of Compassion

Acts of Compassion
Author: Robert Wuthnow
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2012-08-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 140082057X

Robert Wuthnow finds that those who are most involved in acts of compassion are no less individualistic than anyone else--and that those who are the most intensely individualistic are no less involved in caring for others.

How to Do Things with Words

How to Do Things with Words
Author: John Langshaw Austin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 181
Release: 1975
Genre: Language and languages
ISBN: 019824553X

This work sets out Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts for at least the last ten years of his life. Starting from an exhaustive examination of his already well-known distinction between performative utterances and statements, Austin here finally abandons that distinction, replacing it with a more general theory of 'illocutionary forces' of utterances which has important bearings on a wide variety of philosophicalproblems.

Propositional Structure and Illocutionary Force

Propositional Structure and Illocutionary Force
Author: Jerrold J. Katz
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1980
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780674716155

This book offers a new theory of the structure of propositions, which provides a uniform treatment of constative and performative sentences. Jerrold Katz shows that performatives can enter into logically valid arguments, even though, as Austin claimed, they can't be true or false. Katz also argues that âeoespeech act theoryâe is not a theory at all, but an assortment of observations about heterogeneous aspects of the performance of speech acts. He shows that a better explanation of speech acts is given by a grammatical account of the iIIocutionary potential of sentences and a separate pragmatic account of how this potential is realized in actual speech situtations. Katz provides such a grammatical account, which makes it possible for the first time to explain the iIIocutionary potential of sentences within grammar.