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and belief.
These sets
are different for speaker and hearer, although
largely overlapping, and the knowledge set of the hearer changes during
the communication, ideally according to the purposes of the speaker.
By uttering a sentence a speaker accomplishes a referential act. It has
a social point as soon as the speaker has an intention to demonstrate
that he/she has the particular knowledge about the particular fact. The
purpose is to change the knowledge of the hearer as a consequence of
the interpretation of this semantic (referential) act. If this purpose is
realized, the speaker has accomplished a successful communicative act,
that is, he/she has been able to add some information to the knowledge
of the hearer.
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