2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Roles of Mental Images in Utterance Understanding: Toward the Reconstruction of Pragmatics
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23652005
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Philosophy/Ethics
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Metropolitan University |
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Principal Investigator |
MATSUSAKA Youichi 首都大学東京, 人文科学研究科(研究院), 准教授 (50244398)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 西洋哲学 / 言語哲学 / 意味論 / 語用論 / 言語学 / 分析哲学 |
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| Research Abstract |
In this study, I found that in order to clarify the relation between meanings and mental contents one must start with the process in which a speaker verbalizes his or her mental representations, not with the process in which a hearer interprets an utterance. This opens up the possibility of a new semantic study, according to which the meanings of linguistics expressions should be taken as the convention according to which a speaker verbalizes his or her mental contents. I presented part of this result in (Youichi Matsusak, "Personal Pronouns", Tokyo Forum For Analytic Philosophy, 2013, at University of Tokyo).
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Research Products
(2 results)
