Or’-parentheticals, ‘that is’-parentheticals and the pragmatics of reformulation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10141218 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Diane Blakemore (University of Salford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 311-339 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-2267 • E-ISSN: 1469-7742 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022226707004598 |
| OpenAlex | W2160022378 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 18 |
The classification of that is , or (in other words) , and or rather as reformulation markers would seem to suggest that the utterances they introduce achieve relevance in the same way. However, the examination of a range of discrepancies between reformulations introduced by or , on the one hand, and reformulations introduced by that is , on the other, suggests that any account of the pragmatics of reformulation must be a non-unitary one. In this paper, I build on Burton-Roberts' (1993) suggestion that the reformulations introduced by or are meta-linguistic in character, and show how these can be distinguished from the reformulations introduced by that is , which must be analysed at the level of conceptual representation. I also show how this distinction corresponds to a distinction between the different ways in which a parenthetical construction may be pragmatically integrated with its host. As Potts (2005) would predict, parenthetical that is -reformulations are not themselves part of the truth-conditional content of their hosts. However, in contrast with or -reformulations, they communicate information about the propositional content of their hosts, and in this way can contribute to the identification of their truth-conditional content at the level of pragmatic interpretation
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
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| Citations per year | 1,14 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |