Abstract

In terms of Grice, what is communicated will have to do with the intention communicative that the speaker had when uttering something, that is, what conditions exist to determine that when “H uttered p, in a situation, what he really meant was x ”. The recognition of the intention will be, for Grice, the justification of linguistic proference, that is, its true meaning. Without However, the Gricean notion of intention has multiple conceptual drawbacks that have been highlighted by various detractors, one of them David Lewis who proposes a satisfactory alternative to this notion. The objective of this article will expose Lewis's position to the concept of intention in Grice.