Language, Intention And Being

This paper is made up of three parts: preface, seven chapters of scrutiny and conclusion.In the preface, on the basis of investigation of analytical philosophy at home and abroad, this paper makes a sketch of the past study of intentionality and context. Through the study of English and American analytical philosophy and phenomenology, it finds out the joint of intentionality and context, that is, the combination of the basic logical form " 'S' is 'P' " in phenomenology and analytical philosophy, by reason of the fact that predicate structure, the simplest language structure, is the key to overcoming the limitations of intentionality in English and American philosophy.Chapter One not only makes a brief introduction to the connotation and characteristics of intentionality, but also gives two points of view of intentionality where the object of intuition is imposed, while that of reflection is immanent. As a result, it comes to two kinds of intention structure: one is intention structure in phenomenology, with its language logic " 'S' is 'P' "; the other is intention structure in Speech Act Theory of Austin and Searle, which is made up of psychological model and description of content in form of "noun + intentionality + clause". Thus the paper succeeds in finding the essence of language intentionality.Chapter Two puts forward the theory of language construction, and it focuses on the importance of 'being' which is ignored by psychological semantics and Speech Act Theory, whereas it determines whether discourse is the result of intention. Here 'being' is concerned with three functions: it is the media between subject and object, and also acts as 'representation' in semantics and 'adumbration' in pragmatics as well. Base on the above, the paper explores the interrelationship between metaphor and meaning, intention and context.Chapter Three focuses on the relevance between referential object and its carrier, intentional meaning and contextual 'point of reference'. Meanwhile, it explains the importance intentionality functioned on referential object. Based on the difference of reference and referential object, the paper scrutinizes how meaning determines referential object, and the process is the fact of tracing the proper referential object according to its connotation. As a result, the paper finds out that meaning is usually employed to account for intentional meaning; therefore, it provides an extensive explanation of the theory of contextual reference.By developing meaning, sense and reference in detail, Chapter Four constructs the structure of meaning consisting of sense and reference, and its contextual relevance. Then, during the course of contextualization of meaning does exist there two kinds of activities, intention and realization. Intention equals to intentional activity which indicates the intentional object, where there lies certain unrealized meaning. Thus the realization of meaning is achieved through contextual reasoning.Through the analysis of some Theories of Truth, Chapter Five concludes 'Truth' in two aspects: what is 'Truth', and what 'Truth' functions. On the basis of investigation of the relationship among 'Truth', 'being' and 'Being', it comes to a conclusion that every proposition, statement and fact depends on a certain conceptual system, that is, a certain context.Chapter Six aims at analyzing hermeneutics and rhetoric from the contextual perspective. Since meaning is realized through contextual reasoning, do exist the differences of certain context during the course of explanation. However, hermeneutics not only confirms the variety, but also attempts to achieve 'visual confusion'. Thus the process of interpretation is to reveal intentional context, and the aim of rhetoric lies in 'identification' obtained through communication, suggestion and persuasion in different context.Chapter Seven focuses on the foundation and functions of context. The idea that language is unchangeable comes from metaphysics, and it only focuses on 'have been', and ignores 'being'. According to the theory of meaning and referential objects, a single referential object may contain several aspects of meaning, and if the meaning is a conveyable means of referential objects, it is dependent on 'being' itself. In this sense, context acts as 'present' formed by intentional 'Being'. As a result, Theory of Context not only scrutinizes that language concerns the fact of 'Being', not 'have been', but also reveals the relationship between language and 'Being'.In the last part, the paper concludes the language intentionality in the view of context, and develops a joint between language and world: language—intention—Being.