On commitment to untruthful implicatures

IF 1.8 2区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Intercultural Pragmatics Pub Date : 2023-02-15 DOI:10.1515/ip-2023-0004

J. Meibauer

引用次数: 7

Abstract

Abstract In the current debate on the lying-misleading distinction, many theorists distinguish between lying as insincere assertion and misleading through conveying an untruthful implicature. There is growing empirical evidence that average speakers count untruthful implicatures as cases of lying. What matters for them is the (degree) of commitment to an untruthful implicature. Since untruthful conversational implicatures may arise with non-assertions, and untruthful presuppositions are also judged as lying, a realistic conception of lying should aim at a definition of lying that it is able to cover these possibilities. Such a conception, which supports traditional assumptions about the semantics-pragmatics distinction, leads to a commitment-based definition of lying, as recently proposed by a number of authors.

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对不真实含义的承诺

在当前关于谎言与误导区分的争论中，许多理论家将谎言区分为不真诚的断言和通过传达不真实的含义而误导。越来越多的经验证据表明，一般的说话者把不真实的暗示算作说谎。对他们来说重要的是对不真实含义的承诺(程度)。由于非断言可能会产生不真实的会话含义，而不真实的预设也被判断为说谎，因此一个现实的谎言概念应该旨在为谎言定义一个能够涵盖这些可能性的定义。这一概念支持了关于语义-语用区分的传统假设，导致了最近由一些作者提出的基于承诺的谎言定义。

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Intercultural Pragmatics Multiple-

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3.10

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36.40%

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期刊介绍： Intercultural Pragmatics is a fully peer-reviewed forum for theoretical and applied pragmatics research. The goal of the journal is to promote the development and understanding of pragmatic theory and intercultural competence by publishing research that focuses on general theoretical issues, more than one language and culture, or varieties of one language. Intercultural Pragmatics encourages ‘interculturality’ both within the discipline and in pragmatic research. It supports interaction and scholarly debate between researchers representing different subfields of pragmatics including the linguistic, cognitive, social, and interlanguage paradigms. The intercultural perspective is relevant not only to each line of research within pragmatics but also extends to several other disciplines such as anthropology, theoretical and applied linguistics, psychology, communication, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, and bi- and multilingualism. Intercultural Pragmatics makes a special effort to cross disciplinary boundaries. What we primarily look for is innovative approaches and ideas that do not always fit into existing paradigms, and lead to new ways of thinking about language. Intercultural Pragmatics has always encouraged the publication of theoretical papers including linguistic and philosophical pragmatics that are very important for research in intercultural pragmatics.