Understanding of Meaning as a Communication Problem

DOI

10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.327How to use a DOI?

Keywords

communication; understanding; meaning; denotation; content; sense; mental

Abstract

Our standard idea of communication presupposes that communication is based on the understanding of what is said or written, what other people mean by certain words and actions and etc. As representatives of different cultures speaking different languages so those who belong to the same culture and speak the same language need to be capable, as it seems, to make the words they hear or read meaningful in certain way in order to obtain understanding. But what exactly should be done depends on what is understood as meaning? There are different concepts of linguistic as well as communicative meaning. In this article, the conditions which have to be satisfied in order to obtain understanding of such widely discussed types of meaning as content, sense and denotation are investigated. It is shown that in neither case can understanding be literally assessing what other people say, think, presuppose, and so on.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Alexei Cherniak
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TI  - Understanding of Meaning as a Communication Problem
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 1503
SN  - 2352-5398
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