8 The Use-Theory of Meaning and the Rules of Our Language Games

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Title:	8 The Use-Theory of Meaning and the Rules of Our Language Games
Author(s):	Jaroslav Peregrin
Volume:	24 Editor(s): Ken Turner ISBN: 978-0-85724-909-8 eISBN: 978-0-85724-910-4
Citation:	Jaroslav Peregrin (2011), 8 The Use-Theory of Meaning and the Rules of Our Language Games, in Ken Turner (ed.) Making Semantics Pragmatic (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, Volume 24), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.183-204
DOI:	10.1108/S1472-7870(2011)0000024010 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Extract:	The issue (i) is admittedly largely a terminological one. However, it turns out that it is useful to differentiate between treating something, as it were, in one's mind, and treating it in the outer world. The term use is then plausibly reserved for the latter kind of treatment (we may use the term conceiving of for the former one). In this way we can contrapose use-theories of meaning to various kinds of semiotic and representational theories which see meaningfulness as a matter of being taken to stand for something else.