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Identificatory functions of the description in a fictional text
Koťátko, Petr
The author argues that descriptions used in narrative fiction typically function as incomplete descriptions of complete entities, rather than as descriptions of incomplete entities. This presupposes a specific account of fictional worlds and their inhabitants.
Communication as a game: a misleading metaphor?
Koťátko, Petr
The author criticises the account of linguistic communication as a kind of game, in which rules (linguistic conventions) apply on moves (utterances, as made in given context) and give meanings of utterances as out-puts.
Semidescriptions, Descriptions, Identification and Linguistic Competence
Koťátko, Petr
The author explores the identificatory function of descriptions and the specific nature of the identificatory knowledge provided by them.
Language and World: the Common Sense Realism
Koťátko, Petr
The author draws consequences from the realistic account of language as one of the parametres of the human form of life in the real world and argues against the account of the world as a linguistic construct.
Concept and Word: On Social Aspects of Thought Contents
Koťátko, Petr
The paper offers arguments for the metalinguistic construction of thought contents, as the most direct way of reflecting the individual subject's reliance on the division of linguistic and intellectual labour.
Speech Acts, Committments and Linguistic Tricks
Koťátko, Petr
The paper defines speech act types in normative terms and argues that this provides a good basis for analysis of posible speaker's intentions and communicative strategies.
On the History of the Idea of Practical Foundations of Thoought and Meaning
Koťátko, Petr
The paper characterizes various versions of the idea of practical foundations of the forms of thought from Kant through Fichte and Hegel to Marx and his followers and compares it with Wittgenstein's and Davidson's location of meaning into the context of human activities.
On Traditional (Plus Some More Recent) Aspirations of the Notion of Truth in the Philosophy of Language
Koťátko, Petr
The author critically analyzes various arguments in favour of the central role of the notion of truth and truth-conditions in the theory of meaning: his conclusion is that truth-conditions are in no respect more fundamental than other types of satisfaction conditions.
The Notion of Linguistic Conventions in the Determination of Utterance Meaning
Koťátko, Petr
The author suggests a classification of the types of discourse based on the specification of principles determining utterance meanings: these principles differ in particular in the role they assign to lingustic conventions and to hypotheses concerning the speakers' communicative intentions.

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