H. P. Grice. "Utterer's Meaning, Sentence-Meaning, and Word-Meaning," Foundations of Language, 4: 1--18, 1968.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

....d, speaker) connections c, the utterance itself, and the described situation e. Some public facts about (such as its speaker and time of utterance) are determined by the discourse situations [44] The ties of the mental states of the speaker and the hearer with the world constitute c [34]. A discourse situation involves the expression uttered, its speaker, the spatio temporal location of the Some utterances are about different situation types meeting in one. Consider the utterance Alice did not eat ice cream because she was ill. The courses of events may be formulated as ....

.... That really attracts me. Depending on the reference of the demonstrative, interpretation (and hence meaning) would change. For example, this sentence would be uttered by a boy referring to a cone of ice cream or by a cab driver referring to fast driving, meaning absolutely different things [34]. This information based approach to the semantics of natural languages has resulted in what is known as situation semantics. Situation semantics makes simple assumptions about the way natural language works. Primary among them is the assumption that language is used to convey information about ....

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H. P. Grice. "Utterer's Meaning, Sentence-Meaning, and Word-Meaning," Foundations of Language, 4: 1--18, 1968.

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