Local pragmatics and structured contents

• Autores: Mandy Simons
• Localización: Philosophical Studies, ISSN-e 1573-0883, Vol. 168, Nº. 1, 2014, págs. 21-33
• Idioma: alemán
• Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
• Resumen

  • There is a long-standing and rarely contested view that Gricean conversational reasoning�the kind of reasoning that supports the identification of conversational implicatures�cannot produce pragmatically generated modification of the contents of embedded clauses. The goal of this paper is to argue against this view: to argue that embedded pragmatic effects can be seen as continuous with ordinary, utterance-level, conversational implicature. I will further suggest, though, that embedded pragmatic effects do force on us a particular conception of semantics. Specifically, I will argue that an adequate account of the data requires a semantic framework that posits structured contents.