What is Said and Indirect Speech Reports

• Authors: Joanna Odrowąż-Sypniewska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In their Insensitive Semantics (2005) Cappelen and Lepore argue for the Controversial Aspect (CA) which is a part of their Speech Act Pluralism and which says that speakers don’t have privileged access to what they say. Gross (2006) criticizes C&L’s argument for CA and urges them to abandon that claim. I argue that on C&L’s broad understanding of the notion of what is said, CA (and whole SAP) is trivial, whereas on a more restricted understanding CA is indeed controversial and plausibly false. Moreover, the broad reading of what is said is incompatible with one of C&L’s tests for context-sensitivity.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Research in Language
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 345-352

Dates

published

2012-09-30

Contributors

author

Joanna Odrowąż-Sypniewska

• University of Warsaw

References

• Cappelen, Herman and Ernie Lepore. 2005. Insensitive Semantics. A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
• Cappelen, Herman and Ernie Lepore. 1997. “On an Alleged Connection Between Indirect Speech and the Theory of Meaning”. Mind and Language 12, 278-296. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0017.1997.tb00075.x
• Cappelen, Herman and Ernie Lepore. (2006). “Response”. Mind and Language 21, 50-73.
• Gross, Steven. 2006 “Can One Sincerely Say What One Doesn’t Believe?”, Mind and Language 21, 11-20. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0017.2006.00302.x
• Kaplan, David. 1989. “Demonstratives”. In J. Almog, J. Perry, H. Wettstein (eds.), Themes form Kaplan. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Lepore, Ernie. 2004. “An Abuse of Context in Semantics: The Case of Incomplete Definite Descriptions”. In M. Reimer and A. Bezuidenhout (eds.), Descriptions and Beyond (41-67). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Odrowąż-Sypniewska, Joanna. 2010. “Sprawozdania w mowie zależnej”, Przegląd Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 3, 263-276.

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10015-011-0026-9