When1: 1957
When2: 1975
Who: Herbert Paul Grice [Grice, Herbert Paul] or Paul Grice [Grice, Paul]
What: linguist
Where: England
works\ Meaning [1957]; Causal Theory of Perception [1961]; Utterer's Meaning, Sentence Meaning, and Word-Meaning [1968]; Logic and Conversation [1975]
Detail: He lived 1913 to 1988. Speaker meaning is what speaker intended to make happen to audience using words {conversation implicature}. Intention is to modify audience beliefs or behavior, and audience knows intention {reflexive intention}. Meaning is about speaker and hearer mental state. Speaker meaning is first and determining, above word or sentence meaning. Speaker meaning, linguistic meaning, or semantics follows from thoughts. Actual usage does not necessarily reflect thought. Speaker meaning and word meaning can differ.
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