Meaning and Interpretation. II (original) (raw)

The paper enriches the conceptual apparatus of the theory of meaning and denotation that was presented in Part I (Section 3). This part concentrates on the notion of interpretation, which is defined as an equivalence class of the relation possessing the same manner of interpreting types. In this part, some relations between meaning and interpretation, as well as one between denotation an interpretational denotation are established. In the theory of meaning and interpretation, the notion of language communication has been formally introduced and some conditions of correctness of communication have been formulated. 4. The theory of meaning and interpretation: the theory TMI 4.1. Interpretation and language communication The definitions of meaning, denotation and related notions given in Section 3 (Part I), define semantic-pragmatic concepts of the formal theory of meaning TM. They are based on the notions of the set User of all users of the language L, the set Ont of all objects considered by users of the language and the operation use of using expression-tokens of L. Because a formal theory of language should explain, at least to a certain theoretical degree, the phenomenon of language communication among people, its conceptual apparatus has to refer to the notion of interpretation of language expressions and to empirical acts of communication. Let us notice that the notion of interpretation has not to be connected solely with sign-systems of communication; in semantics it plays a crucial, specific role. In formal considerations the notion of interpretation will be defined on wfe-types by means of the notion int of interpreting token in a way completely analogous to the one given in Section 3 for the notion of meaning μ. The notion int of interpreting tokens, like the notion use of using tokens, is a new primitive concept of our extended theory which will be denoted

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