What did we learn from Istvan Kecskes? Introductory notes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12859541 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alessandro Capone (0000-0001-6584-9767, University of Messina, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 833-857 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Intercultural Pragmatics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1612-295X • E-ISSN: 1613-365X |
| Publisher | De Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ip-2025-5001 |
| OpenAlex | W4417395227 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 23 |
In this article, I sum up Kecskes’ views on intercultural pragmatics, English as a lingua franca, and the socio-cognitive approach to language and communication. I try to present a coherent picture of his views by adding my own comments and considerations. I focus on the main concept of intercultural communication, the speaker’s egocentrism and salience. I also address the issue of a priori and emergent intentions. I distinguish between communal prior experience and privatized prior experience. I propose that inferential pragmatics is involved in selecting either one or the other aspect of communication. I offer some reflections on salience and the relationship between salient meanings and idealized pragmatics. I finally expatiate on situation-bound utterances and claim that they also require a notion of salience
Egocentrism · Focus (optics · Intercultural communication · Pragmatics · Salience (neuroscience · Salient · Second language · Viewpoints · Categorization, perception, and language · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy
Intercultural Pragmatics
On Our MindSalience, Context, and Figurative Language
Thoughts and Utterances
When do speakers take into account common ground?
The language game of lost meaning
Are explicatures cancellable? Toward a theory of the speaker's intentionality
Against (Gricean) intentions at the heart of human interaction
Understanding figurative and literal language
You Don't Say
Nonindexical contextualism
A pragmatic view of the poetic function of language
Situation-bound utterances as pragmatic acts
Insensitive Semantics. A Defence of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism
Pragmemes (a study with reference to English and Italian)
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