Cognitive propositions and semantic expressions

IF 1.8 2区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Intercultural Pragmatics Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI:10.1515/ip-2021-2012

Wayne A. Davis

引用次数: 5

Abstract

Abstract Building on their well-known act theory of propositions, Soames and Hanks have proposed a theory of what it is for sentences to express propositions, thereby answering a central question about the foundations of semantics. The basic idea is that for a sentence to express a proposition in a language is for speakers of the language to use the sentence to perform the act that is the proposition. I argue that this general account of expression fails to explain how incorrect usage is possible, how what sentences express differs from what they implicate, how unused sentences can express propositions, how compositional meanings are possible, and how to specify who the speakers of L are without circularity. I go on to show how these things can be explained within the structured cognitive proposition framework.

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认知命题与语义表达

索姆斯和汉克斯在他们著名的命题行为理论的基础上，提出了一个关于什么是句子来表达命题的理论，从而回答了语义学基础的核心问题。其基本思想是，用一个句子来表达一种语言中的一个命题，就是让说这种语言的人用这个句子来完成这个命题的行为。我认为，这种表达的一般描述无法解释不正确的用法是如何可能的，句子所表达的内容与它们所暗示的内容是如何不同的，未使用的句子是如何表达命题的，组成意义是如何可能的，以及如何在没有循环的情况下指定谁是L的说话者。我将继续展示如何在结构化认知命题框架内解释这些事情。

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Intercultural Pragmatics Multiple-

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3.10

自引率

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.