Definedness conditions on admission-of-ignorance moves
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19436989 |
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| Authors | Luis Vicente (0000-0003-4778-5960), Luis Cuadrado De Vicente (University of Potsdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Pages | 166-179 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-21 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics in the Netherlands (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0929-7332 • E-ISSN: 1569-9919 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/avt.33.12vic |
| OpenAlex | W2562224432 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Given a set of alternatives, a speaker can explicitly admit ignorance about which of them hold true. The (in)felicity of such admission-of-ignorance moves immediately following disjunctions and conjunctions follows from the semantics of or and and. However, semantics alone turns out to be insufficient in cases when the disjunction/conjunction and the admission-of-ignorance move are separated by additional conversational moves of acceptance, objection, or removal of an existing assertion. I argue that these patterns follow if admission-of-ignorance are associated to a speech act operator admit whose input is restricted to propositions that the current speaker is publicly committed to at the current conversational stage
Assertion · Epistemology · Ignorance · Linguistics · Programming language · Chemistry · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Highly cited | No |
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