Intentions, Commitments, and the Derivation of Implicatures
In this paper, I focus on a common equivocality in how the content of conversational, especially scalar, implicatures is specified and I argue that there is a substantial difference between the belief specification BELS(¬ψ) (“The speaker believes that ¬ψ”) and the content specification ¬ψ. The main...
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| description | In this paper, I focus on a common equivocality in how the content of conversational, especially scalar, implicatures is specified and I argue that there is a substantial difference between the belief specification BELS(¬ψ) (“The speaker believes that ¬ψ”) and the content specification ¬ψ. The main argument for taking the distinction between the specifications seriously is that, in most cases, both BELS(¬ψ) and ¬ψ can be derived as the implicatures of the same sentence but they have different consequences for how the hearer plans her future actions and manages expectations about the future actions of the speaker. As I argue further, the commitment-based approaches can provide an explanation of how the content specification is derived in contexts in which the speaker does not have beliefs required for the derivation of the belief specification and because of that they have an advantage over the standard Gricean approach. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-bc4acbd2cb49402d932eaa0f980d0dd42024-12-15T13:51:42ZcesInstitute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of SciencesOrganon F1335-06682585-71502024-08-01313204216https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2024.31301Intentions, Commitments, and the Derivation of ImplicaturesMatej Drobňák0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7113-2543University of Hradec KrálovéIn this paper, I focus on a common equivocality in how the content of conversational, especially scalar, implicatures is specified and I argue that there is a substantial difference between the belief specification BELS(¬ψ) (“The speaker believes that ¬ψ”) and the content specification ¬ψ. The main argument for taking the distinction between the specifications seriously is that, in most cases, both BELS(¬ψ) and ¬ψ can be derived as the implicatures of the same sentence but they have different consequences for how the hearer plans her future actions and manages expectations about the future actions of the speaker. As I argue further, the commitment-based approaches can provide an explanation of how the content specification is derived in contexts in which the speaker does not have beliefs required for the derivation of the belief specification and because of that they have an advantage over the standard Gricean approach.https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/0908094010.31577:orgf.2024.31301.pdfcommitmentsgricean pragmaticsimplicaturesintentionssocial-normative pragmatics |
| spellingShingle | Matej Drobňák Intentions, Commitments, and the Derivation of Implicatures Organon F commitments gricean pragmatics implicatures intentions social-normative pragmatics |
| title | Intentions, Commitments, and the Derivation of Implicatures |
| title_full | Intentions, Commitments, and the Derivation of Implicatures |
| title_fullStr | Intentions, Commitments, and the Derivation of Implicatures |
| title_full_unstemmed | Intentions, Commitments, and the Derivation of Implicatures |
| title_short | Intentions, Commitments, and the Derivation of Implicatures |
| title_sort | intentions commitments and the derivation of implicatures |
| topic | commitments gricean pragmatics implicatures intentions social-normative pragmatics |
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