Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2018)

Understanding of Meaning as a Communication Problem

Authors
Alexei Cherniak
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Alexei Cherniak
Available Online July 2018.
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
July 2018
ISBN
978-94-6252-528-3
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.327How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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