Meaning and Expression: Marty and Grice on Intentional Semantics

摘要: Paul Grice’s essay ‘Meaning’ — one of the fundamental works for semantics was published in 1957. Almost fifty years before 1908 Anton Marty’s book ‘Investigations into foundation general grammar and philosophy language’1 published. Reading chapters ‘Preliminaries on meaning general’2 ‘Supplementary Remarks general’,3 notices strong similarities with theory terminology Grice. In these Marty is concerned question significance so-called language devices (Sprachmittel). At first he deals problem intentional unintentional utterances inner life speaker. An instinctive cry a person sign his feeling pain accordingly statement signifies that speaker holds conviction. Consequently linguistic expressions related to expression speaker’s psychological experiences. However, this not only relevant aspect device. writes: However, it just way ‘being sign’, one’s life, which exclusive primary aim speech. What rather intended influence or control unknown hearer. Intentional speech special kind action, essentially aimed at evoking certain phenomena other (U 284).4