Against intentionalism: an experimental study on demonstrative reference
العنوان: | Against intentionalism: an experimental study on demonstrative reference |
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المؤلفون: | Bartosz Maćkiewicz, Katarzyna Kuś, Wojciech Rostworowski |
المصدر: | Linguistics and Philosophy. 45:1027-1061 |
بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021. |
سنة النشر: | 2021 |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Philosophy of language, Demonstrative, Linguistics and Language, Philosophy, Point (typography), Computer science, Context (language use), Semantics, Referent, Object (philosophy), Linguistics, Preference |
الوصف: | In this paper, we present two experimental studies on reference of complex demonstratives. The results of our experiments challenge the dominant view in philosophy of language, according to which demonstrative reference is determined by the speaker's intentions. The first experiment shows that in a context where there are two candidates for the referent—one determined by the speaker’s intention, the other by some “external” factors—people prefer to identify the referent of a demonstrative with the latter object. The external factors for which this prediction has been confirmed include the speaker’s demonstration and the descriptive content of a demonstrative. The second experiment shows that while this preference can be explained in terms of the speakers’ having different sorts of referential intentions, the relevant kind of intentions are fully opaque to the subjects. At the end of our paper, we point to some alternative accounts of demonstrative reference, including a pluralistic and hybrid approach, which can accommodate our experimental results. |
تدمد: | 1573-0549 0165-0157 |
URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::5b8b74e6d52782dc300d079316ffdb3c https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-021-09340-z |
حقوق: | OPEN |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........5b8b74e6d52782dc300d079316ffdb3c |
قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
تدمد: | 15730549 01650157 |
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