Against (Gricean) intentions at the heart of human interaction

Of babies and bath water: Is there any place for Austin and Grice in interpersonal pragmatics?

“…However, they did this in a way that still harked back to an encoding-decoding model of communication (Arundale, 2008), which tended to refer to an idealised speaker or hearer and to concentrate exclusively on the transactional functions of communication, ignoring any relational function that might be encoded in language.…”

“…Thus Austin and Grice are fully cognisant of the role both speaker and hearer play in creating meaning. The real problem with their exposition is not that they privilege the speaker role but that it is based on a simplistic encodingdecoding model of communication (Arundale, 2008;Mills, 2011) in which meaning is transmitted in a linear fashion from an idealised speaker (or 'model person', in Brown and Levinson's terms) to an idealised hearer. From a social constructivist point of view, meaning is not to be found either in the hearer's interpretation or in the speaker's intention, since neither of these can be observed and thereby justified.…”

“…As Haugh (2007) and Arundale (2008) point out, this does not necessarily get away from an encoding/decoding model of communication.…”

On understandings of intention: A response to Wedgwood

“…He focuses on work by Arundale (2008) that was published as part of the aforementioned special issue, as well as papers by myself that were published elsewhere (Haugh 2008c(Haugh , 2009) as the specific target for his critique of "interactional" approaches, and his concurrent defense of intention recogni--10.1515/ip-2012-0011 Downloaded from PubFactory at 08/15/2016 02:41:44AM via free access tion as being at the heart of communication and "cognitive" approaches more broadly. Arundale (this issue), in his response, addresses the flaws in Wedgwood's arguments in relation to understandings of communication.…”

Déficit Específico Da Linguagem De Ordem Pragmática (Del-Prag) E Dificuldades De Aprendizagem: Interface Gramática-Pragmática E Relevância No Uso Da Língua

“…36 Esta articulação foi sugerida no âmbito do projeto ao qual esta tese se integra (ver introdução). 37 Com relação ao termo "reconhecimento de intenções", Arundale (2008) chama atenção para um problema que envolve tal terminologia, uma vez que se a autonomia cognitiva for levada em conta, torna-se impossível conceber que um ouvinte possa reconhecer uma intenção, já que esta é uma propriedade cognitiva de outro indivíduo, qual seja, o falante. Assim sendo, alguns pesquisadores, dentre os quais, Sperber & Wilson (1986, reinterpretam o termo como um processo pelo qual o ouvinte faz uma inferência considerando a intenção comunicativa do falante e atribuindo a este tal intenção inferida.…”