Iffy Endorsements
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22882129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Magdalena Kaufmann (Department of Linguistics University of Connecticut Storrs, CT USA), Stefan Kaufmann (0000-0001-7065-2301, Department of Linguistics University of Connecticut Storrs, CT USA) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 639-665 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Semantics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0167-5133 • E-ISSN: 1477-4593 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jos/ffab017 |
| OpenAlex | W4212797259 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
Theories of imperatives differ in how they aim to derive the distributional and functional properties of this clause type. One point of divergence is how to capture the fact that imperative utterances convey the speaker’s endorsement for the course of events described. Condoravdi & Lauer (2017) observe that conditionals with imperative consequents (conditionalized imperatives, CIs) are infelicitous as motivations of advice against doing something and take this as evidence for an analysis of imperatives as encoding speaker endorsement. We investigate CIs in further contexts and argue that their account in terms of preferential conflicts fails to capture the more general infelicity of CIs as motivations for or against doing something. We develop an alternative in which imperatives do not directly encode speaker preferences, but express modalized propositions and impose restrictions on the discourse structure (along the lines of Kaufmann, 2012). We show how this carries over to conditionalized imperatives to derive the behavior of CIs, and conclude with a discussion of more general problems regarding an implementation of conditional preferential commitments, an issue that can be avoided on our account of imperatives.
Divergence (linguistics) · ENCODE · Epistemology · Linguistics · Point (geometry) · Speech act · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Use-Conditional Meaning
Interpreting Imperatives
Scorekeeping in a language game
Conditional Truth and Future Reference
Presupposition Projection as Anaphora Resolution
Conditional Questions
Anankastic conditionals are just conditionals
Contrast and the structure of discourse
Presuppositions, provisos, and probability
A preference semantics for imperatives
Information structure in discourse
One's Modus Ponens
Common Ground
Inquisitive Semantics
Presuppositions and Implicatures in Counterfactuals
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |