Enrichment and Loosening: Complementary Processes in Deriving the Proposition Expressed?

Carston, Robyn

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“…There are also various arguments for the view that the meaning of expressions in general, and not only those that have context-sensitive parameters, is usually modulated during online processing (Carston 1997, Recanati 2004. To accommodate these accounts, recent discussions of compositionality suggest that in modeling our linguistic competence we should think of compositionality as the principle that the meaning of token expressions is determined from the contextually saturated and modulated meaning of their constituents (Pagin & Pelletier 2007, Szabó 2010, Recanati 2010.…”

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Dual Content Semantics, privative adjectives, and dynamic compositionality

Pinal

2015

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This paper defends the view that common nouns have a dual semantic structure that includes extension-determining and non-extensiondetermining components. I argue that the non-extension-determining components are part of linguistic meaning because they play a key compositional role in certain constructions, especially in privative noun phrases such as fake gun and counterfeit document. Furthermore, I show that if we modify the compositional interpretation rules in certain simple ways, this dual content account of noun phrase modification can be implemented in a type-driven formal semantic framework. In addition, I also argue against traditional accounts of privative noun phrases which can be paired with the assumption that nouns do not have a dual semantic structure. At the most general level, this paper presents a proposal for how we can begin to integrate a psychologically realistic account of lexical semantics with a linguistically plausible compositional semantic framework.

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Dual Content Semantics, privative adjectives, and dynamic compositionality

Pinal

2015

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“…It gives an interpretation more specific than the literal one; that is, the process of free enrichment outputs a denotation of an expression that is a subset of the initial denotation (Carston, 1997). In relevance theory, this kind of lexical modulation is called "narrowing," and it contributes to explicatures.…”

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Explicit Communication: An Interest and Belief-Based Model

2018

Linguis. Philos. Invest.

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ABSTRACT. The paper presents an inferential model of explicit communication based on the speaker's interests and the addressee's beliefs. After the introduction, the paper sets out some notions concerning explicit communication within the frameworks of truth-conditional pragmatics and relevance theory. The third section describes the phenomenon of semantic underdeterminacy, and the fourth section introduces non-demonstrative inferences in communication. The fifth section presents the model. The main notions involved are the speaker's intended meaning and the addressee's intended meaning. The former notion is centered on the speaker's interest in situation: a speaker intends the meaning of an utterance on the basis of a partial order of preference with respect to a set of contextually plausible meanings. The latter notion is centered on the addressee's communicative inference, which is based on the addressee's belief about the speaker's interest. The paper takes the notion of interest from cognitive social theory, the notion of meaning from semantics, and the notion of explicit meaning from pragmatics; and it uses the notion of communicative inference for explicit meaning in partial accordance with relevance theory. In the sixth section, the paper argues in favor of the inferential approach compared with the associative approach in determination of "what is said." The paper's method is conceptual analysis of declarative utterances used in communicative situations. The main finding of the paper has been to show that, in contextual underdeterminacy cases, speaker's interest is a determining factor in communicative processes.

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“…The decoded content helps to identify the inferences that make the utterance relevant as expected, and is readjusted so as to warrant just those inferences that contribute to the relevance of the utterance as a whole. In particular, the constituent concepts of the explicature are constructed ad hoc, starting from the linguistically encoded concepts, but quite often departing from them so as to optimise the relevance of the overall interpretation (Carston 1997(Carston , 2002Sperber & Wilson 1998a;Wilson & Sperber 2002;Wilson 2003).…”

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Experimental Pragmatics

2004

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This paper considers the implications for philosophy of some recent approaches to pragmatics (with a focus on relevance theory) and makes two main points. First, the widening gap between sentence meaning and speaker's meaning increasingly brings into question a basic assumption of much philosophy of language: that linguistic semantics provides direct insight into the structure of human thoughts. Second, by describing comprehension as a richly context-dependent form of inference, pragmatics provides an illustration of how we might approach central cognitive processes, which have been seen by Fodor as a major mystery for cognitive psychology and philosophy of mind.

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Enrichment and Loosening: Complementary Processes in Deriving the Proposition Expressed?

Cited by 94 publications

References 9 publications

Dual Content Semantics, privative adjectives, and dynamic compositionality

Dual Content Semantics, privative adjectives, and dynamic compositionality

Explicit Communication: An Interest and Belief-Based Model

Experimental Pragmatics

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