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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Abstract

Recall that in the initial discussion of communication and meaning, Alexander points out that the communicative process has four distinguishable phases or senses of "meaning". These are intentional meaning, content meaning (including conceptual, emotive, and active content), significative meaning, and interpreted meaning, resulting from an act of interpretation. These phases of the meaning process form a continuing sequence with mutual, interacting involvement.100 Or, as Austin suggested in the process of linguistic phenomenology, the movement from being to doing in utterances is a developmental, historical process.101 In the last chapter, the structure or relation among these types of meaning was explored by looking at the way in which a situation could come to have meaning. This is to say, how a situation can be explained or described as the result of an utterance as an ordinary human behavior. Our analysis was not very fruitful in that 'speech act structure" emerged as only a part of the explanation for the "meaning" of an utterance.

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Lanigan Richard L (1977) Speech act phenomenology. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 46-65

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-1045-0_4

Full citation:

Lanigan Richard L (1977) Speech act contents, In: Speech act phenomenology, Dordrecht, Springer, 46–65.