Could we enrich speech-act theory to deal with discourse ? Wittgenstein and Searle pointed out difficulties. Most conversations lack a conversational purpose , their background is indefinitely open , they can contain irrelevant and infelicitous utterances , they require collective intentionality , etc.

AN ACTIVITY BASED APPROACH TO PRAGMATICS 1. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline an approach to communication and pragmatics which under the names of "Activity based Communication Analysis" or "Communicative Activity Analysis" has been under development since the mid 70´s (cf. Allwood, 1976). To do this I start by giving a critical review of some of the main theoretical contributions...

Nas Investigações Filosóficas (§ 202) Wittgenstein afirma que “seguir uma regra é prática”. Meu texto, tem por objetivo, dar explicação inacabada e não suficiente da relação entre prática em Wittgenstein. Além disso, pretende mostrar do fato de ser decorre necessidade defesa um comunitarismo regras, ou seja, só possível seguir regras comunitariamente isoladamente. Uma visão como essa, a meu ver...

wittgenstein is one of the most prominent philosophers in the twentieth century; his views in both periods of his thinking have influenced many issues, including religion. his view on religion is expressed in his tractatus logico-philosophicus. in terms of the picture theory of meaning and the distinction between the meaningless and meaningful propositions, he has made an attempt to show that t...

In a recent discussion piece, Juliet Floyd and Hilary Putnam present a new analysis of Wittgenstein’s “notorious paragraph” on Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem. Textually, they claim that Wittgenstein’s remarks have been widely misunderstood, and they argue that Wittgenstein had a better understanding of Gödel’s theorem than he has often been credited with. Substantively, they find in Wittg...