For Searle, then, there definitely is such a thing as metaphorical meaning, but it is , as he says, "always speaker's utterance meaning" (1985, p 417) The
The Gricean analysis, for example, has trouble with the familiar fact that people often talk to babies, and mean something when they do, despite having no
of speaker meaning and conversational implicature are cast in very different by means of a sentence S, it is not enough for her to mean that P'S must also be a
Speaker Meaning • What is it for a speaker A to mean that p in uttering sentence α? Grice's (1957) definition Speaker A means that p in uttering α to hearer B iff
speaker meaning An example: [Discussing an utterance of the sentence 'That is empty', where 'that' refers to a can] Did I mean ''contains no Sprite'' or
If Grice is right, speaker's meaning (what a speaker intends to communicate) is a more fundamental notion than sentence meaning That is, sentences mean