Is a speaker-based pragmatics possible? Or how can a hearer infer a speaker's commitment?

Moeschler, Jacques

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2012.11.019

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Is a speaker-based pragmatics possible? Or how can a hearer infer a speaker's commitment?

ContributorsMoeschler, Jacques

Published inJournal of Pragmatics, vol. 48, no. 1, p. 84-97

Publication date2013

Abstract

In this paper, the speaker's issue is tackled from an original point of view, that is, the semantic and pragmatic inferences utterances convey. It is claimed that two features allow drawing conclusions on the degree of the speaker's commitment: the strength of the inferences drawn from her utterance, and the accessibility to them. To insure a precise definition of the strength and the accessibility of inferences, truth-values are given for entailment, presupposition, explicature and implicature.

Keywords

Entailment
Presupposition
Explicature
Implicature
Speaker's commitment

Affiliation entities

Faculté des lettres / Département de linguistique

Research groups

Sémantique-pragmatique-cognition

Citation (ISO format)

MOESCHLER, Jacques. Is a speaker-based pragmatics possible? Or how can a hearer infer a speaker’s commitment? In: Journal of Pragmatics, 2013, vol. 48, n° 1, p. 84–97. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2012.11.019

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PID : unige:109652
DOI : 10.1016/j.pragma.2012.11.019

Commercial URLhttp://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0378216612003086

Journal ISSN0378-2166

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