ABSTRACT
Understanding the communication-intentional dimension of language has now been acknowledged as one of the central problems of philosophy of language. But the importance of this aspect of the study of language is of comparatively recent origin to be more specific, it came into focus in the 1960s. Ramchandra Gandhi was one of the very few philosophers who undertook a detailed analysis of this concept way back in 1974. In this respect his work entitled Presuppositions of Human Communication is a landmark in the field of philosophy of language. In this work he attempts to unfold the structural conditions of language as far as it serves as a tool of human communication. I propose to examine his concept of ‘addressing’ that holds the clue to his analysis of the basics of linguistic communication. Gandhi’s notion of ‘addressing’ is not only insightful, but he uses this concept to serve as an efficient conceptual tool to unravel the multiple dimensions of human communication.
