The speaker's derivational intention

• Autores: Thorstein Fretheim
• Localización: Relevance theory: recent developments, current challenges and future directions / coord. por Manuel Padilla Cruz, 2016, ISBN 978-90-272-5673-7, págs. 33-58
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Adopting the basic tenets of relevance theory, Powell (2010) introduces the concept of derivational intention as something separate from a speaker�s informative intention. The derivational intention of a speaker is an intention concerning the pragmatically inferred route that the hearer should take in order to recognize the speaker�s informative intention. This paper addresses what can happen when a speaker�s derivational intention is at odds with a particular piece of procedural information encoded by some linguistic expression, with the conceptual semantics of a lexical item, or with the procedural meaning of an intonation pattern employed by the speaker. The procedural meaning of one expression may override that of a co-occurring expression when there is a conflict between them