Jacques Moeschler
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 408636 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jacques Moeschler |
| NOMBRES | Jacques |
| APELLIDO | Moeschler |
| FIRMA | MOESCHLER J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Geneva |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8066-2834 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
What makes inferences reliable? The unpredictable relationship between pragmatic inference and truth
One of the main tenets of Gricean pragmatics is the distinction between what is said and what is implicated; that is, between truth-conditional and non-truth-conditional meaning. The main contribution of post-Gricean pragmatics was a new definition of what is said as a pragmatic and truth-conditional meaning (Carston, 2002; Recanati, 2010; Moeschler, 2018a). However, implicated meaning (mainly conversational implicature) is still defined as non-t…
Why truth matters
This article is about truth and relevance. It first discusses the concept of truth in formal semantics and pragmatics, mainly the Gricean, neo-Gricean and post-Gricean approaches to meaning. What is particularly crucial is the relationship between pragmatic meaning and truth, since, from a Gricean perspective, meaning is defined as non-truth-conditional, which in turn raises the question of how truth can be a pragmatic issue. A second issue is th…
Complexité et dynamique du sens
Cet article a pour ambition de jeter un pont entre la pragmatique théorique, et plus spécifiquement la pragmatique cognitive (Théorie de la Pertinence) et la pragmatique interculturelle. Nous montrerons que dans les deux cas, un élargissement des problématiques s'est opéré lors de la dernière décennie, conduisant à une extension de l'agenda de la pragmatique. Bien que des hypothèses différentes sur la communication verbale soient faites, nous mon…
Negative Predicates
The main goal of this chapter is to explain why natural language needs negative predicates to express negative contents. In contrast with syntactic negation, negative predicates exhibit some semantic properties, which are not expressed syntactically: they are complete semantically, restricted to lexical categories, and encode a negative feature. On the other hand, negative predicates are motivated pragmatically: they are stronger statements than …
Where is procedural meaning located? Evidence from discourse connectives and tenses
Is a speaker-based pragmatics possible? Or how can a hearer infer a speaker's commitment
Pragmatics, propositional and non-propositional effects
This article is about pragmatics and emotion. The main purpose of pragmatics is to account for utterance-interpretation processes in verbal communication. In recent years much of pragmatics research has been devoted to the understanding of propositional effects; that is, to cognitive effects on mental representations with propositional forms such as implicatures and explicatures. Little energy has been devoted to non-propositional effects; that i…
Tense, Mood and Aspect
This book is a collection of articles dealing with theoretical issues in the study of tense, mood and aspect, as well as with specific semantic and syntactic problems raised by linguistic expressions dedicated to these domains across a variety of languages. Through these papers, strong variations are explored, but also crosslinguistic convergences are investigated. Numerous phenomena so far often left aside in linguistics are described and enligh…
Recent Advances in the Syntax and Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality
It is a fact that tense, aspect and modality together form one of the most recurring and active areas of research in contemporary syntax and semantics, as well as in other disciplines of linguistics. A large number of syntactic and semantic phenomena are concerned by the temporal-aspectual-modal level of representation: information about time, aspect and modality is part of virtually all sentences; inflexion is quite widely considered as the core…
The French tradition in pragmatics
The following paper provides an overview of the origins of the French tradition in pragmatics (FTP). This linguistic tradition originated in the French structuralist paradigm, mainly in the work of Saussure and Benveniste. This contribution presents a general survey of the work of one of the most famous French pragmaticists, Oswald Ducrot. Ducrot's work on argumentative scale, presupposition, negation, and polyphony are all explored. According to…
Négation, polarité, asymétrie et évènements
Jacques Moeschler: Négation, polarity, asymmetry and events This paper is focused on the effect of négative polarity on presuppositions and scalar implicatures, négative quantifiers and négative events. The main thesis is that the semantics of négation, depending on its scope, does not cover ail the properties and relations of sentence meaning. When ordinary négation is used, the presupposition is not affected, whereas when négation is metalingui…
Intercultural pragmatics
The main purpose of this paper is to explore pragmatic misunderstandings caused by intercultural factors. My thesis is that misunderstandings are caused not by difficulty in drawing the intended implicature, but primarily by lack of access to the correct explicature of the utterance. The explicit vs. implicit nature of the conveyed meaning is the key to the explanation of pragmatic misunderstanding. This argument is based on some assumptions supp…
Langage et pertinence
Relevance and conversation
Aspects pragmatiques de la référence temporelle
This paper argues for a radical pragmatic and inferential approach to temporal reference assignment. It demonstrates that temporal expressions allowing for the calculation of temporal reference are inherently indeterminate and require non-literal interpretation. Furthermore, it proposes a coreferential solution to the sequencing problem based on the notion of causality
Règles d'enchaînement et conversation. A propos de l'article d'Alain Trognon et Christian Brassac Actes de langage et conversation
Argumentation et conversation
Answers to questions about questions and answers
Aspects de la néologie sémantique
Moeschler Jacques. Aspects de la néologie sémantique. In: Langages, 8e année, n°36, 1974. La néologie lexicale. pp. 6-19
Is a speaker-based pragmatics possible? Or how can a hearer infer a speaker's commitment
Where is procedural meaning located? Evidence from discourse connectives and tenses
Pragmatics, propositional and non-propositional effects
This article is about pragmatics and emotion. The main purpose of pragmatics is to account for utterance-interpretation processes in verbal communication. In recent years much of pragmatics research has been devoted to the understanding of propositional effects; that is, to cognitive effects on mental representations with propositional forms such as implicatures and explicatures. Little energy has been devoted to non-propositional effects; that i…
Aspects de la néologie sémantique
Moeschler Jacques. Aspects de la néologie sémantique. In: Langages, 8e année, n°36, 1974. La néologie lexicale. pp. 6-19
Relevance and conversation
Aspects pragmatiques de la référence temporelle
This paper argues for a radical pragmatic and inferential approach to temporal reference assignment. It demonstrates that temporal expressions allowing for the calculation of temporal reference are inherently indeterminate and require non-literal interpretation. Furthermore, it proposes a coreferential solution to the sequencing problem based on the notion of causality
Négation, polarité, asymétrie et évènements
Jacques Moeschler: Négation, polarity, asymmetry and events This paper is focused on the effect of négative polarity on presuppositions and scalar implicatures, négative quantifiers and négative events. The main thesis is that the semantics of négation, depending on its scope, does not cover ail the properties and relations of sentence meaning. When ordinary négation is used, the presupposition is not affected, whereas when négation is metalingui…
Intercultural pragmatics
The main purpose of this paper is to explore pragmatic misunderstandings caused by intercultural factors. My thesis is that misunderstandings are caused not by difficulty in drawing the intended implicature, but primarily by lack of access to the correct explicature of the utterance. The explicit vs. implicit nature of the conveyed meaning is the key to the explanation of pragmatic misunderstanding. This argument is based on some assumptions supp…
Complexité et dynamique du sens
Cet article a pour ambition de jeter un pont entre la pragmatique théorique, et plus spécifiquement la pragmatique cognitive (Théorie de la Pertinence) et la pragmatique interculturelle. Nous montrerons que dans les deux cas, un élargissement des problématiques s'est opéré lors de la dernière décennie, conduisant à une extension de l'agenda de la pragmatique. Bien que des hypothèses différentes sur la communication verbale soient faites, nous mon…
Aspects de la néologie sémantique
Moeschler Jacques. Aspects de la néologie sémantique. In: Langages, 8e année, n°36, 1974. La néologie lexicale. pp. 6-19
Answers to questions about questions and answers
Argumentation et conversation
Règles d'enchaînement et conversation. A propos de l'article d'Alain Trognon et Christian Brassac Actes de langage et conversation
Relevance and conversation
Aspects pragmatiques de la référence temporelle
This paper argues for a radical pragmatic and inferential approach to temporal reference assignment. It demonstrates that temporal expressions allowing for the calculation of temporal reference are inherently indeterminate and require non-literal interpretation. Furthermore, it proposes a coreferential solution to the sequencing problem based on the notion of causality
Langage et pertinence
Intercultural pragmatics
The main purpose of this paper is to explore pragmatic misunderstandings caused by intercultural factors. My thesis is that misunderstandings are caused not by difficulty in drawing the intended implicature, but primarily by lack of access to the correct explicature of the utterance. The explicit vs. implicit nature of the conveyed meaning is the key to the explanation of pragmatic misunderstanding. This argument is based on some assumptions supp…
The French tradition in pragmatics
The following paper provides an overview of the origins of the French tradition in pragmatics (FTP). This linguistic tradition originated in the French structuralist paradigm, mainly in the work of Saussure and Benveniste. This contribution presents a general survey of the work of one of the most famous French pragmaticists, Oswald Ducrot. Ducrot's work on argumentative scale, presupposition, negation, and polyphony are all explored. According to…
Négation, polarité, asymétrie et évènements
Jacques Moeschler: Négation, polarity, asymmetry and events This paper is focused on the effect of négative polarity on presuppositions and scalar implicatures, négative quantifiers and négative events. The main thesis is that the semantics of négation, depending on its scope, does not cover ail the properties and relations of sentence meaning. When ordinary négation is used, the presupposition is not affected, whereas when négation is metalingui…
Tense, Mood and Aspect
This book is a collection of articles dealing with theoretical issues in the study of tense, mood and aspect, as well as with specific semantic and syntactic problems raised by linguistic expressions dedicated to these domains across a variety of languages. Through these papers, strong variations are explored, but also crosslinguistic convergences are investigated. Numerous phenomena so far often left aside in linguistics are described and enligh…
Recent Advances in the Syntax and Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality
It is a fact that tense, aspect and modality together form one of the most recurring and active areas of research in contemporary syntax and semantics, as well as in other disciplines of linguistics. A large number of syntactic and semantic phenomena are concerned by the temporal-aspectual-modal level of representation: information about time, aspect and modality is part of virtually all sentences; inflexion is quite widely considered as the core…
Pragmatics, propositional and non-propositional effects
This article is about pragmatics and emotion. The main purpose of pragmatics is to account for utterance-interpretation processes in verbal communication. In recent years much of pragmatics research has been devoted to the understanding of propositional effects; that is, to cognitive effects on mental representations with propositional forms such as implicatures and explicatures. Little energy has been devoted to non-propositional effects; that i…
Is a speaker-based pragmatics possible? Or how can a hearer infer a speaker's commitment
Where is procedural meaning located? Evidence from discourse connectives and tenses
Negative Predicates
The main goal of this chapter is to explain why natural language needs negative predicates to express negative contents. In contrast with syntactic negation, negative predicates exhibit some semantic properties, which are not expressed syntactically: they are complete semantically, restricted to lexical categories, and encode a negative feature. On the other hand, negative predicates are motivated pragmatically: they are stronger statements than …
Why truth matters
This article is about truth and relevance. It first discusses the concept of truth in formal semantics and pragmatics, mainly the Gricean, neo-Gricean and post-Gricean approaches to meaning. What is particularly crucial is the relationship between pragmatic meaning and truth, since, from a Gricean perspective, meaning is defined as non-truth-conditional, which in turn raises the question of how truth can be a pragmatic issue. A second issue is th…
Complexité et dynamique du sens
Cet article a pour ambition de jeter un pont entre la pragmatique théorique, et plus spécifiquement la pragmatique cognitive (Théorie de la Pertinence) et la pragmatique interculturelle. Nous montrerons que dans les deux cas, un élargissement des problématiques s'est opéré lors de la dernière décennie, conduisant à une extension de l'agenda de la pragmatique. Bien que des hypothèses différentes sur la communication verbale soient faites, nous mon…
What makes inferences reliable? The unpredictable relationship between pragmatic inference and truth
One of the main tenets of Gricean pragmatics is the distinction between what is said and what is implicated; that is, between truth-conditional and non-truth-conditional meaning. The main contribution of post-Gricean pragmatics was a new definition of what is said as a pragmatic and truth-conditional meaning (Carston, 2002; Recanati, 2010; Moeschler, 2018a). However, implicated meaning (mainly conversational implicature) is still defined as non-t…
Philosophy (16 obras) · Linguistics (14 obras) · Computer Science (12 obras) · Philosophy (11 obras) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (10 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (7 obras) · Pragmatics (7 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 obras) · Cognition (5 obras)