Speaker reference

pp. 102-139

in: Rod Bertolet, What is said, Berlin, Springer, 1990

Abstract

Having attempted to demonstrate that a number of other approaches are unsatisfactory, I turn now to the development of a theory of speaker reference which gives primacy to the intentions of the speaker. After some preliminary remarks, I shall start with two views of this sort that seem to me inadequate. My own approach is detailed in section 2, and the remainder of the chapter is a defense of that approach.