Channels for Common Ground

Dados Bibliográficos

ID10348160
AutoresEarl Swanson (0000-0003-1337-4047, University of Michigan, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume104
Fascículo1
Páginas171-185
Data de publicação2020-12-28
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0031-8205 • E-ISSN: 1933-1592
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/phpr.12741
OpenAlexW3116562683
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas47

One potentially ethically relevant feature of an utterance is that utterance's influence on the likelihoods that our future discourses wind up with one Stalnakerian ‘common ground’ or body of shared information rather than another. Such likelihoods matter ethically, so the ways our utterances influence them can matter ethically, despite the fact that such influences are often unintended, and often hard to see. By offering a relatively neutral descriptive framework that can enhance our collective sensitivity to and discussion of ethically, socially, and politically important features of language use, this paper contributes to the ethics of language use. It discusses ways in which utterances can influence the likelihoods of future common grounds by deploying one system of categorization rather than another, and argues that language’s effects on the evolution of discourse can affect the paths to and probabilities of different sorts of consensus

Affect (linguistics · Categorization · Common ground · Epistemology · Feature (linguistics · Linguistics · Utterance · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation