Abstract:
The proposed work concerns the philosophy of language and the communication phenomena; it analyzes the philosophic tradition of ordinary language philosophy (such as that of Austin, Grice, Searle, Stalnaker, Wittgenstein), and adresses the following themes: deixis, implicature, speech act, through the concepts of context and implicity. The first section will address the philosophical origins of pragmatics such as: J.L. Austin's theme of actional language, Grice's concept of speaker and conversational implicature and Wittgenstein's idea of philosophy as an activity. The second section is a critical path through the main areas of analitical philosophy in which the concepts of context and implicit are addressed: within the traditional semantic paradigm (such as that of Kaplan and Perry) and in the horizon of truth-conditional pragmatic theories (as in Sperber,Wilson and Recanati). The conclusion insists on the necessity of not identifying the meaning with truth-conditions and avoiding to stiffen the concepts of context and implicity, recognizing their relation with multiple phenomena concerning the sharing of experiences, spaces, situations and life models. The pragmatics of language, dealing with communication, necessarily has to interact with all disciplines; this does not mean that it has to confuse itself and lose its concepts and approaches in the meanders of other doctrines.
