The Social Foundations of Meaning

Introductory summary.- I Conventional meaning: The pretheoretical intuition.-
1 Conventional meaning vs. natural meaning.-
2 Conventional meaning vs. speaker's meaning.-
3 Conventional meaning and correct understanding.-
4 Correct understanding: The conventional result principle.-
5 Conventional systems evolving into languages.-
6 Communication: Redistributing situational roles.-
7 The strategy of language description.- II Compliance with rules.-
8 The weak Hart analysis of rule - guided behavior.-
9 Why dismiss the 'internal aspect'?.-
10 Hart attacks repelled.-
11 An attractive alternative: Lewis conventions.-
12 No rigid problem - solving.-
13 Choice rules.-
14 Knowledge of conventions.-
15 Can meaning sneak in via common knowledge?.-
16 Conventional make - ups and how to detect them.- III A case for utterance meaning: NIVEAU zero.-
17 A plea for case studies.-
18 The first utterance meaning rules.-
19 Background conventions and suspected signals.-
20 Strengthening the description.-
21 The meaning of circumstances.-
22 Theoretical fruitfulness.- IV Conventional utterance meaning.-
23 Language use: Conventional behavior calling for a special kind of description.-
24 Conventional utterance meaning defined.-
25 Neptune: Conventional perturbations and their best explanation.- 26 Expressions and expressive power.-
27 The diversity of language.-
28 The theoretical character of the speech act of reference.- V Against intentionalism.-
29 Preliminaries.-
30 Ignored motives for making constative utterances.-
31 Gricean intentions: Irrelevant and unlikely.-
32 Speakers' meaning and conventional meaning: Empirically connected.-
33 The Thomistic fallacy.-
34 Genitives subjectivus and genitives objectivus.-
35 Declarations of meaning.- VI The same case for sentence meaning: NIVEAU.-
36 The new problem.-
37 Grouping signs by positing new entities.-
38 Some semantic features: Ambiguity, negation, anaphora.- VII Some results for sentence