Accommodation in Linguistic Interaction. On the So-called Triggering Problem

Witek, Maciej

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“…The context understood as the set of beliefs mutually shared by speakers A and B does not meet the requirements imposed on it by the conditions for the appropriate use of this content, and therefore the utterance (1B) is inappropriate in the light of the above-mentioned criterion. However, this would mean that all utterances containing informative presuppositions are inappropriate utterances and as such trigger mechanisms of accommodation construed as a context-fixing or context-repairing process (for a discussion of the idea of accommodation as a context-fixing process, see Witek 2019a).…”

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Standard and Non-standard Suppositions and Presuppositions

Kasjanowicz

2021

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In this paper, I argue that the distinction between standard and non-standard pragmatic implications, originally used to differentiate among types of conversational implicatures, applies to the family of contents—traditionally referred to as ‘presuppositions’—that exhibit projective behaviour. Following the scholars working within the Question Under Discussion model of communication, I distinguish between two types of projective implications: suppositions and presuppositions narrowly construed. Next, I identify two rules of appropriateness that govern the use of, respectively, supposition-triggering and presupposition-triggering expressions. Finally, I argue that the ostentatious violation of the rules in question gives rise to non-standard projective implications, whereas their observance results in standard suppositions and presuppositions; I also use the idea of discourse coherence to develop a sketchy account of the mechanisms underlying the functioning of non-standard projective implications.

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“…Elaborating on these differences, however, goes beyond the scope of the present paper. For an extensive discussion of this topic seeWitek 2019a.…”

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Standard and Non-standard Suppositions and Presuppositions

Kasjanowicz

2021

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“…For example, after I have said 'I took my dog for a walk,' it is no longer correct play for you to ask if I have any pets. I have already said something that presupposes that I do have a pet, so the 'score' is updated to include this information (for further discussion of presuppositions and conversational score, see Langton & West, 1999;McGowan, 2004McGowan, , 2009McGowan, , 2019Langton, 2018;Witek, 2019).…”

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Tweet acts and quote-tweetable acts

Cousens

2023

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Online communication can often seem different to offline talk. Structural features of social media sites can shape the things we do with words. In this paper, I argue that the practice of ‘quote-tweeting’ can cause a single utterance that originally performed just one speech act to later perform several different speech acts. This describes a new type of illocutionary pluralism—the view that a single utterance can perform multiple illocutionary acts. Not only is this type more plural than others (if one utterance can acquire many kinds of illocutionary force), but it also shows how illocutionary forces can be accumulated over time. This is not limited to online utterances—some offline contexts are similarly structured, and so offline utterances can also come to perform many different speech acts.

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“…Our discourse-independent thoughts, by 20 Of course more conditions have to be met in order for accommodation to work. For a discussion of this topic, see (Witek 2019a) and (Witek 2019c). For a discussion of blocking the accommodation of faulty presuppositions, see (Langton 2018).…”

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“…For a critical discussion of Stalnaker's model of presuppositions, see (Witek 2019a). contrast, are in a sense ready-made elements of our mental life, that wait for being activated and expressed.…”

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Self-Expression in Speech Acts

Witek¹

2021

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My aim in this paper is to examine Mitchell S. Green's notion of self-expression and the role it plays in his model of illocutionary communication. The paper is organized into three parts. In Section 2, after discussing Green's notions of illocutionary speaker meaning and self-expression, I consider the contribution that selfexpression makes to the mechanisms of intentional communication; in particular, I introduce the notion of proto-illocutionary speaker meaning and argue that it is necessary to account for acts overtly showing general commitments that are not 'marked' as being specific to one or another illocutionary force. In Section 3, I focus on Green's account of expressive norms and argue that their function is to stabilize rather than constitute the structure of illocutionary signalling systems; moreover, I examine critically Green's idea according to which expressive norms enable us to indicate the force of our speech acts and suggest that they play a key role in the mechanisms for epistemic vigilance. Finally, in Section 4, I elaborate on the idea of discourse-constituted thoughts-or, in other words, thoughts that exist in virtue of being expressed in making certain conversation-bound speech acts-and use it to develop a more comprehensive model of the expressive dimension of speech acts.

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Accommodation in Linguistic Interaction. On the So-called Triggering Problem

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