Each mark must be explained to the individual, not solely in terms of what it means to do, but also how that impacts the meaning of speech.
This method is preferred because differences in how different communities understand the meaning of speech acts, such as "questioning," may shape in unpredictable ways the results derived from investigator-imposed elicitation, such as "interviewing".
Whether the work was done by Robert Burns or Walt Disney, by the animators of Bambi or in the mind of Cervantes, art involving talking animals is often deeply political, a wellspring of inquiry about the meaning of speech and power.
Our vocal tone the prosody contributes a lot to the meaning of speech beyond the actual words.
Quine claimed that the notion of psychological or mental activity has no place in a scientific account of either the origins or the meaning of speech.
With this principle, Habermas ties the meaning of speech acts to the practice of reason giving: speech acts inherently involve claims that are in need of reasons claims that are open to both criticism and justification.
Although language encodes concepts and their relationships to communicate them, the meaning of speech depends on context: just as we unconsciously extract a pictorial hypothesis of our surroundings from a maze of visual data, so we infer (often equally unconsciously) the meaning of a spoken message using our picture of the speaker's knowledge, beliefs and intentions (pp. 180 184).
In this context, it is important to highlight once again that, in previous TMS studies, phonemes were presented in isolation; thus, the tasks did not entail the comprehension of the meaning of speech and, therefore, it remains unclear whether the influence of articulatory motor areas extends to normal speech comprehension and semantic understanding.
This has been undertaken in order to try and provide a sense of the context in which things were said and in order to preserve some of the nuances and more subtle meanings of speech that might have been lost through paraphrasing.
But the meaning of her speech -- a political address from the pulpit -- was unmistakable.
