Katarzyna M Jaszczolt
Biographic Data
| ID | 742898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katarzyna M Jaszczolt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katarzyna M |
| FAMILY NAME | Jaszczolt |
| SIGNATURE | JASZCZOLT K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7911-2985 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Facets of self-talk and de se thought
This is a plea for viewing the phenomenon of self-talk in a broader perspective of the relation between the speaker’s thought and its externalisation through speech. I -centered versus you -centered self-talk are argued to provide end points of a spectrum rather than constitute a binary categorial distinction. It is argued that Wiltschko’s ‘structure on top’ can be reconceptualised to accommodate this gradation when it is viewed as conceptual str…
Towards a dynamic functional proposition for dynamic discourse meaning
Theories of utterance meaning in the post-Gricean tradition have typically focused on the main proposition expressed by the speaker that is recovered by the addressee. In this tradition, successful communication rests on the assumption that speakers and addressees come to a shared understanding of these propositions as they are produced in conversation. We now have a wealth of empirical evidence that speakers and addressees need not always conver…
Flowing Time: Emergentism and Linguistic Diversity
Humans are complex systems, ‘macro-entities’, whose existence, behaviour and consciousness stem out of the configurations of physical entities on the micro-level of the physical world. But an explanation of what humans do and think cannot be found through ‘tracking us back’, so to speak, to micro-particles. So, in explaining human behaviour, including linguistic behaviour on which this paper focuses, emergentism opens up a powerful opportunity to…
Functional proposition: A new concept for representing discourse meaning
Rethinking being Gricean: New challenges for metapragmatics
Expressing the self: Cultural Diversity and Cognitive Universals
In this chapter Kasia M. Jaszczolt and Maciej Witek discuss the cognitive significance of the devices used to communicate de se thoughts and argue (and also partially empirically demonstrate) that, pace some extant proposals and pace the dominant presumption in semantics and philosophy of language, there is no evidence that natural languages use different kinds of expressions for externalizing different aspects of self-reference. On the basis of …
Pragmatics and philosophy: In search of a paradigm
There is no doubt that pragmatic theory and philosophy of language are mutually relevant and intrinsically connected. The main question I address in this paper is how exactly they are interconnected in terms of (i) their respective objectives, (ii) explanans – explanandum relation, (iii) methods of enquiry, and (iv) drawing on associated disciplines. In the introductory part I attempt to bring some order into the diversity of use of such labels a…
Towards a pragmatic category of conditionals
First-person reference in discourse: Aims and strategies
Space and time in languages and cultures: Linguistic Diversity
Space and time in languages and cultures: Language, Culture, and Cognition
Cross-linguistic differences in expressing time and universal principles of utterance interpretation
This chapter addresses the question how linguistic diversity and universalism in the domain of representing time can be reconciled. It is demonstrated how the contextualist theory of Default Semantics (Jaszczolt 2005, 2009, 2010a) accounts for cross-linguistic differences in conveying temporal location, utilising at the same time universal pragmatic principles. This is achieved by allocating information about temporality to different but universa…
Delimitation of pragmatics: Paradigms, myths, and fashions. A response to Bara
Bloomfield’s (1933) Language, Sapir’s articles on language, anthropology and psychology (1949) belong to an era in which linguists could still deliver a ‘story about everything’, everything about language, about the areas and levels of linguistic analysis, that is worth knowing, researching, and recording for posterity. But with this extraordinary scope also came a refined, new outlook, the paradigm that pushes forward the horizons of language sc…
Pragmaticizing’ Kaplan: Flexible Inferential Bases and Fluid Characters
It can easily be observed in analysing natural language discourse that the category of an indexical expression does not correspond to clearly delimited types of expressions: in spite of the philosophers’ rigid distinctions into directly referring expressions and expressions whose referring function is present on only some occasions of use (where, for example, indexicals and proper names belong to the first category and definite descriptions to th…
Situated temporal reference: A case for compositional pragmatics
Representing Time: An Essay on Temporality as Modality
Thinking and speaking about time is ridden with puzzles and paradoxes. How do human beings conceptualize time? Why, for example, does the availability of tense vary in different languages? How do the lines of information from tense, aspect, temporal adverbs, and context interact in the mind? Does time describe events? If real time does not flow, where do the concepts of the past, present and future come from? Are they basic concepts or are they c…
Cancelability and the primary/secondary meaning distinction
Among the criteria Grice (Studies in the Way of Words, Harvard University Press, 1989: 39–40) proposed for identifying conversational implicatures, cancelability is unquestionably the most celebrated one and the one that is often used as the main, obvious test for classifying speaker's meaning as implicit. Problems with fitting some rather obstinate examples under the requirement of cancelability have led some critics to proposing amendments to G…
The syntax-pragmatics merger: Belief reports in the theory of Default Semantics
This paper is a voice in the ongoing discussion on the source and properties of pragmatic inference that contributes to the representation of discourse meaning. I start off from the contextualist standpoint of truth-conditional pragmatics (TCP, Recanati 2002, 2003, 2004) and develop a proposal of representations of utterance meaning, the so-called merger representations , that incorporate the output of pragmatic inference. The move from TCP to pr…
Variadic function and pragmatics-rich representations of belief reports
Meaning merger: Pragmatic inference, defaults, and compositionality
Kecskes: Linguistic underspecification of utterance content is widely accepted across different frameworks, including the neo-Gricean approaches (cf. Horn 2005; Levinson 2000) and relevance theory (Carston 2002, 2005; Sperber & Wilson 1986, 1995). There is also an agreement that if linguistic underdeterminacy is given, pragmatic inference is required if a hearer is to recover a speaker's meaning successfully. In your Default Semantics, you reject…
Emma Borg , Minimal semantics . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004. Pp. x+288
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Epistemic Modality, Language, and Conceptualization: A Cognitive-Pragmatic Perspective
Against ambiguity and underspecification: Evidence from presupposition as anaphora
Discourse About Beliefs
Discourse Representation Theory provides an adequate framework for representing sentences that express reports on beliefs. However, all the possible readings of a belief report which discriminate between different ways in which the individual is known to the believer are treated equally. In this paper I demonstrate that some of these readings are more salient than others to the hearer and the systematic gradation of this saliency is parallel to t…
Ways of Meaning: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Language
Foundations of speech act theory: Philosophical and linguistic perspectives
Mutual Misunderstanding: Scepticism and the Theorizing of Language and Interpretation
Do others understand we say or write? Do we understand them? Theorists of language and interpretation claim to be more concerned with questions about what we understand and how we understand, rather than with the logically prior question whether we understand each other. An affirmative answer to the latter question is apparently taken for granted. However, in Mutual Misunderstanding , Talbot J. Taylor shows that the sceptical doubts about communi…
Cancelability and the primary/secondary meaning distinction
Among the criteria Grice (Studies in the Way of Words, Harvard University Press, 1989: 39–40) proposed for identifying conversational implicatures, cancelability is unquestionably the most celebrated one and the one that is often used as the main, obvious test for classifying speaker's meaning as implicit. Problems with fitting some rather obstinate examples under the requirement of cancelability have led some critics to proposing amendments to G…
Rethinking being Gricean: New challenges for metapragmatics
Relevance and infinity: Implications for discourse interpretation
The 'default de re' principle for the interpretation of belief utterances
Towards a pragmatic category of conditionals
First-person reference in discourse: Aims and strategies
Epistemic Modality, Language, and Conceptualization: A Cognitive-Pragmatic Perspective
Functional proposition: A new concept for representing discourse meaning
Pragmatics and philosophy: In search of a paradigm
There is no doubt that pragmatic theory and philosophy of language are mutually relevant and intrinsically connected. The main question I address in this paper is how exactly they are interconnected in terms of (i) their respective objectives, (ii) explanans – explanandum relation, (iii) methods of enquiry, and (iv) drawing on associated disciplines. In the introductory part I attempt to bring some order into the diversity of use of such labels a…
Meaning merger: Pragmatic inference, defaults, and compositionality
Kecskes: Linguistic underspecification of utterance content is widely accepted across different frameworks, including the neo-Gricean approaches (cf. Horn 2005; Levinson 2000) and relevance theory (Carston 2002, 2005; Sperber & Wilson 1986, 1995). There is also an agreement that if linguistic underdeterminacy is given, pragmatic inference is required if a hearer is to recover a speaker's meaning successfully. In your Default Semantics, you reject…
Variadic function and pragmatics-rich representations of belief reports
Emma Borg , Minimal semantics . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004. Pp. x+288
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Towards a dynamic functional proposition for dynamic discourse meaning
Theories of utterance meaning in the post-Gricean tradition have typically focused on the main proposition expressed by the speaker that is recovered by the addressee. In this tradition, successful communication rests on the assumption that speakers and addressees come to a shared understanding of these propositions as they are produced in conversation. We now have a wealth of empirical evidence that speakers and addressees need not always conver…
Pragmaticizing’ Kaplan: Flexible Inferential Bases and Fluid Characters
It can easily be observed in analysing natural language discourse that the category of an indexical expression does not correspond to clearly delimited types of expressions: in spite of the philosophers’ rigid distinctions into directly referring expressions and expressions whose referring function is present on only some occasions of use (where, for example, indexicals and proper names belong to the first category and definite descriptions to th…
Situated temporal reference: A case for compositional pragmatics
Signs, science and politics. Philosophies of language in Europe 1700–1830
Typology of contrastive studies: Specialisation, progress and applications
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Mutual Misunderstanding: Scepticism and the Theorizing of Language and Interpretation
Do others understand we say or write? Do we understand them? Theorists of language and interpretation claim to be more concerned with questions about what we understand and how we understand, rather than with the logically prior question whether we understand each other. An affirmative answer to the latter question is apparently taken for granted. However, in Mutual Misunderstanding , Talbot J. Taylor shows that the sceptical doubts about communi…
The Elm and the Expert: Mentalese and Its Semantics
Relevance and infinity: Implications for discourse interpretation
Foundations of speech act theory: Philosophical and linguistic perspectives
Walter de Mulder. 1994. Demonstratives and Intentionality: Searle and Husserl on Meaning and Perception
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Speakers, Listeners and Communication: Explorations in Discourse Analysis
1. Speakers, listeners, and communication 2. The map task method 3. Identifying features in a landscape 4. Guiding the listener through the landscape 5. The stolen letter task: understanding reference to individuals in a narrative 6. Understanding narratives 7. The listener and discourse comprehension
The 'default de re' principle for the interpretation of belief utterances
Discourse About Beliefs
Discourse Representation Theory provides an adequate framework for representing sentences that express reports on beliefs. However, all the possible readings of a belief report which discriminate between different ways in which the individual is known to the believer are treated equally. In this paper I demonstrate that some of these readings are more salient than others to the hearer and the systematic gradation of this saliency is parallel to t…
Ways of Meaning: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Language
Against ambiguity and underspecification: Evidence from presupposition as anaphora
Epistemic Modality, Language, and Conceptualization: A Cognitive-Pragmatic Perspective
Emma Borg , Minimal semantics . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004. Pp. x+288
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Meaning merger: Pragmatic inference, defaults, and compositionality
Kecskes: Linguistic underspecification of utterance content is widely accepted across different frameworks, including the neo-Gricean approaches (cf. Horn 2005; Levinson 2000) and relevance theory (Carston 2002, 2005; Sperber & Wilson 1986, 1995). There is also an agreement that if linguistic underdeterminacy is given, pragmatic inference is required if a hearer is to recover a speaker's meaning successfully. In your Default Semantics, you reject…
The syntax-pragmatics merger: Belief reports in the theory of Default Semantics
This paper is a voice in the ongoing discussion on the source and properties of pragmatic inference that contributes to the representation of discourse meaning. I start off from the contextualist standpoint of truth-conditional pragmatics (TCP, Recanati 2002, 2003, 2004) and develop a proposal of representations of utterance meaning, the so-called merger representations , that incorporate the output of pragmatic inference. The move from TCP to pr…
Variadic function and pragmatics-rich representations of belief reports
Representing Time: An Essay on Temporality as Modality
Thinking and speaking about time is ridden with puzzles and paradoxes. How do human beings conceptualize time? Why, for example, does the availability of tense vary in different languages? How do the lines of information from tense, aspect, temporal adverbs, and context interact in the mind? Does time describe events? If real time does not flow, where do the concepts of the past, present and future come from? Are they basic concepts or are they c…
Cancelability and the primary/secondary meaning distinction
Among the criteria Grice (Studies in the Way of Words, Harvard University Press, 1989: 39–40) proposed for identifying conversational implicatures, cancelability is unquestionably the most celebrated one and the one that is often used as the main, obvious test for classifying speaker's meaning as implicit. Problems with fitting some rather obstinate examples under the requirement of cancelability have led some critics to proposing amendments to G…
Situated temporal reference: A case for compositional pragmatics
Space and time in languages and cultures: Linguistic Diversity
Space and time in languages and cultures: Language, Culture, and Cognition
Cross-linguistic differences in expressing time and universal principles of utterance interpretation
This chapter addresses the question how linguistic diversity and universalism in the domain of representing time can be reconciled. It is demonstrated how the contextualist theory of Default Semantics (Jaszczolt 2005, 2009, 2010a) accounts for cross-linguistic differences in conveying temporal location, utilising at the same time universal pragmatic principles. This is achieved by allocating information about temporality to different but universa…
Delimitation of pragmatics: Paradigms, myths, and fashions. A response to Bara
Bloomfield’s (1933) Language, Sapir’s articles on language, anthropology and psychology (1949) belong to an era in which linguists could still deliver a ‘story about everything’, everything about language, about the areas and levels of linguistic analysis, that is worth knowing, researching, and recording for posterity. But with this extraordinary scope also came a refined, new outlook, the paradigm that pushes forward the horizons of language sc…
Pragmaticizing’ Kaplan: Flexible Inferential Bases and Fluid Characters
It can easily be observed in analysing natural language discourse that the category of an indexical expression does not correspond to clearly delimited types of expressions: in spite of the philosophers’ rigid distinctions into directly referring expressions and expressions whose referring function is present on only some occasions of use (where, for example, indexicals and proper names belong to the first category and definite descriptions to th…
Philosophy (32 works) · Linguistics (31 works) · Epistemology (23 works) · Computer Science (22 works) · Philosophy (19 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (17 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (15 works) · Pragmatics (13 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (11 works)