La Noción de Referencia en Searle y El Sustrato Semántico-Pragmático de Los Actos de Habla

from the standpoint of analytical philosophy, searle intends to elucidate the notion of reference as one of the two instances (the other is predication) that correspond to the propositional features of any speech act, an aspect of language that has traditionally been subjected to controversial analyses due to the ontological and epistemological commitments that it entails. in this article, searle？s thesis on reference as a speech act will be presented in the first place. then, the already known classical path form frege and russell will be discussed in order to compare their positions with searle？s and to point out shortcomings and flaws. finally, some interesting semantic and pragmatic implications of this traditional problem will be offered.