Are explicatures cancellable? Toward a theory of the speaker's intentionality

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12859568
AutoresAlessandro Capone (0000-0001-6584-9767, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen6
Número1
Fecha de publicación2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaIntercultural Pragmatics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1612-295X • E-ISSN: 1613-365X
EditorialDe Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/iprg.2009.003
OpenAlexW2057350044
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas35
Referencias citadas32

The aim of this paper is to reflect on the necessity of pragmatic development of propositional forms and arrive at a better understanding of the level of meaning which Sperber and Wilson and Carston call ‘explicature’. It is also argued that the pragmatically conveyed elements of explicatures are not cancellable—unlike conversational implicatures. While Capone (RASK: International Journal of Language and Communication 19: 3–32, 2003) addressed the issue of the cancellability of explicatures from a merely empirical point of view, in this paper a number of important theoretical questions are raised and discussed. In particular it is proposed that the analysis of the notion of intentionality and the nature of pragmatic intrusion will settle the question of the cancellability of explicatures. An explicature can be considered a two-level entity. It consists of a logical form and a pragmatic increment that the logical form gives rise to in the context of an utterance. However, both the initial logical form and the pragmatic increment are the target of pragmatic processes. Consequently, we need a pragmatic process to promote the initial logical form to an intended interpretation and another pragmatic process to derive further increments starting from the initial logical form as promoted to an utterance interpretation

Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Grice · Intentionality · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Ostensive definition · Pragmatics · Process (computing · Utterance · Computer Science · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation