Abstract
In the tradition inspired by the ideas of Paul Grice, communication essentially consists in recognizing the intentions of the speaker and in the ability to provide enough clues for the hearer to guess his/her intentions. As it is well-known, this way of thinking is based on the difference between “sentence meaning”, that is, the semantic properties ascribed to a sentence by linguistic conventions, and the “speaker meaning”, that is, what the speaker actually intend to communicate by uttering a given sentence. This implies that linguistic communication cannot be reduced to a mere encoding-decoding process. Namely, it involves the attribution of mental states to the speaker. We are, therefore, committed to the idea that in the world there are things such as communicative intentions.
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