Speech Acts, Meaning and Intentions: Critical Approaches to the Philosophy of John R. Searle (Grundlagen der Kommunikation und Kognition / Foundations of Communication and Cognition)

The social and intellectual context of the material in the book of Proverbs has given rise to several proposals concerning the nature of the constituent compendia within the document as well as the function of the discourse as a whole. In light of the problems inherent in an investigation of the nature and function of Proverbs, the present study focuses on the social dimensions of the document within its distinct, literary context. That is, the study attempts to examine the nature and function of the sapiential material within its new performance context, viz., the discursive context, the Sitz im Buch. This form of analysis moves beyond the investigation of individual aphorisms to provide a concrete context through which to view the various components of the discourse as well as the discourse as a whole. In the main, the study explores the formal, discursive, and thematic features of the constituent collections within the book of Proverbs in order to identify the nature and function of the work. More specifically, the study highlights the fundamental features of the book's discourse setting, the thematic development of the material, the ethos of the individual collections and their role within Proverbs in order to ascertain the degree to which the document may be considered a courtly piece. Introduction 1. Historical Roots of Speech Act Theory Barry Smith: Towards a history of speech act theory John F. Crosby: Speech act theory and phenomenology 2. Speech Act Theory between Semantics and Pragmatics Armin Burkhardt: Speech act theory – the decline of a paradigm Gabriel Falkenberg: Searle on sincerity Eckard Rolf: On the concept of action in illocutionary logic 3. Speech Act Theory and Intentionality Robert M. Harnish: Speech acts and intentionality Frank W. Liedtke: Representational semantics and illocutionary acts Wilhelm Baumgartner/Jörg Klawitter: Intentionality of perception. An inquiry concerning J. R. Searle’s conception of intentionality with appeal to Husserl 4. Meaning Jerrold J. Katz: Literal meaning and logical theory Michael J. Evans/Rainer Wimmer: Searle’s theory of proper names, from a linguistic point of view Carlo Marletti: Congruence and modulation in propositional attitudes 5. Theory of Metaphor and Fictional Discourse Armin Burkhardt: Searle on metaphor Anne Reboul: The logical status of fictional discourse: what Searle’s speaker can’t say to his hearer 6. Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science Dieter Münch: Minds, brains and cognitive science Manfred Bierwisch: Perspectives on mind, brain, and language: Linguistics as a cognitive science or Touring the Chinese room again The analytical way of thinking has been one of the most fruitful paradigms in this century in philosophy and in different sciences, particularly in linguistics and the philosophy of language. Speech Acts, Meaning and Intentions: Critical Approaches to the Philosophy of J.R. Searle (Foundations of Communication and Cognition) Edited By Armin Burkhardt. Includes Bibliographical References.