Conclusion

Abstract

AbstractThis chapter serves as a conclusion to the book as a whole. It shows that the position developed is compatible with approaches to language that draw evidence from the reflective notion of what is said. Intuitions about what is said should be treated as a source of data for semantic and pragmatic theories, rather than as an explanatory target for these. What the current theory opposes, it is emphasised, is the idea that some conception of what is said need be posited as a level of representation when modelling basic utterance interpretation. Rather, from such a perspective, there is nothing that is said.