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#888 Elmar Unnsteinsson - Talking About: An Intentionalist Theory of Reference

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Speech Acts: Referring and Theories

This chapter explores the concept of referring as a speech act and discusses various theories of speech acts, including conventionalism, intentionalism, functionalism, expressionism, and normativism. It proposes a combination of mental intentions and functional actions as the way speech acts are constituted.

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