A referálás beszédaktusa
The Speech Act of Referring

Summary/Abstract: According to the speech-act theory whenever we utter a sentence, we perform two acts: the act of referring and that of predicating. By referring we set out an object that we speak of, and by predicating we attribute a feature to the object. My paper is a short presentation of Gottlob Frege’s theory of meaning and Bertrand Russell’s theory of description. I will try and outline the core concepts and thoughts/arguments that define even today’s debate about reference in the analytic tradition.

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