PHILOS 135 Study Guide - Final Guide: Illocutionary Act, Perlocutionary Act, If And Only If
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Grice"s account of speaker meaning. a. i. a. ii. a. iii. fundamental notion: a speaker"s meaning something by an utterance on a particular occasion - any notion of standard meaning has to be explained in terms of this fundamental notion. Provide an example or explicate each of these conditions. a. iv. Explain how, under this account, meaning is not always conventional: searle"s account of speaker meaning, how it differs from grice"s. b. i. b. ii. Searle"s goal: an account of the nature of speech, and of particular speech acts, in the form of an account of the rules that constitute linguistic practice. To perform a speech-act is to engage in a rule-governed form of behavior b. ii. 1. a. Searle would like for grice to be able to connect the rules of a language to meaning, so he adds a third condition to grice"s account. b. iii. 1. It is not perlocutionary acts that we should be looking to explain the meaning of, but rather illocutionary acts. b. iii. 1. a.
