In this work, it is defended the thesis that the form and the use of the meanings of the natural languages are mediated by practical conditions. In the first chapter, it is talked about formal principles in the construction of propositional contents. In the second chapter, it is talked about the relationship between semantics and context; the focus is on the assessments of the linguistic forms and communicative situations that speakers make according to the knowledge they have precisely of both language and expressive situations. The third chapter focuses on the form of meanings according to the principles that govern the conversation and, specially, according to the violation of those principles. The intention and intentionality of the speakers, according to this violation of the rational principles, imply that the knowledge that one has of the language and the communicative situations is modified. It is concluded that meanings are regularized both in convention and in conversation, that is, in linguistic practice the form of meanings results from a relation between facts and expressions according to a mental process.
Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas. Facultad de Filosofía. Programa Institucional de Maestría en Filosofía de la Cultura
