Indirect reports as language games

Capone, Alessandro

doi:10.1075/pc.20.3.07cap

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“…These distinctions between strengths of contents and levels of commitments are useful for establishing what a speaker can be held to endorse and be accountable for. In order for a commitment to be attributable to the speaker, it is necessary to establish whether it results from a strong intention (Capone 2009), which is made explicit (and retrievable by the interpreter or quoter) through textual and contextual evidence (Capone 2012(Capone , 2013Ifantidou 2001;Macagno 2017;Macagno and Capone 2016). In this sense, even though quotations mostly represent only an illocutionary act and the proposition expressed, selecting, marking, and emphasizing the dimension thereof more convenient to the quoter's interests (Clark and Gerrig 1990, p. 779), they need to take into account the conversational dimension and the context.…”

Section: What Is Meant What Is Said and Speaker's Commitmentsmentioning

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Diagnosing Misattribution of Commitments: A Normative and Pragmatic Model of for Assessing Straw Man

Walton

Macagno

2019

Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy: Part 2 Theories and Applications

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This paper builds a nine-step method for determining whether a straw man fallacy has been committed in a given case or not, by starting with some relatively easy textbook cases and moving to more realistic and harder cases. The paper shows how the type of argument associated with the fallacy can be proved to be a fallacy in a normative argumentation model, and then moves on to the practical task of building a hands-on method for applying the model to real examples of argumentation. Insights from linguistic pragmatics are used to distinguish the different pragmatic processes involved in reconstructing what is said and what is meant by an utterance, and to differentiate strong and weak commitments. In particular, the process of interpretation is analyzed in terms of an abductive pattern of reasoning, based on co-textual and contextual information, and assessable through the instruments of argumentation theory.

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Section: What Is Meant What Is Said and Speaker's Commitmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Diagnosing Misattribution of Commitments: A Normative and Pragmatic Model of for Assessing Straw Man

Walton

Macagno

2019

Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy: Part 2 Theories and Applications

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“…In the first case, the hearer's acceptance of a certain proposition depends on the presumptive reasoning relative to what he may know and accept based on what speakers within a specific community usually accept as true. In the second case, the interlocutors are committed to what is said between them, and what is said (and the context) is a proof of their commitments (Macagno et al 2016b;Capone 2012Capone , 2013Ifantidou 2001). Clearly also in this case commitments are subject to default, such as in cases in which "what is said" (or rather the explicatures) or "what is meant" is controversial.…”

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Understanding misunderstandings. Presuppositions and presumptions in doctor-patient chronic care consultations

Macagno

Bigi

2017

Intercultural Pragmatics

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Pragmatic presupposition is analyzed as grounded on an implicit reasoning process based on a set of presumptions, which can define cultural differences. The basic condition for presupposing a proposition is represented as a reasoning criterion, namely reasonableness. Presuppositions, on this view, need to be reasonable, namely they need to be the reasonable conclusions of an underlying presumptive reasoning, which does not or may not contain contradictions with other presumptions. Presumptions are in turn analyzed considering their nature and their hierarchy, namely their subject matter and their possible contextual backing, which eliminates some of their possible defaults. This analysis of presupposition brings to light the relationship between misunderstandings deriving from presuppositional failures and the underlying system of presumptions. This approach is applied to the investigation of communicative issues within the medical context, and more precisely doctor-patient communication in diabetes cases.

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“…The pragmatic function of an indirect report is largely determined by the degree of voice intertwinement. Hence, studying the relation between the form and function of indirect reports entails a disentanglement of the intertwined voices of journalist and news source (Capone, 2012). In the present paper we will analyze the relation between the voices of journalist and news sources in indirect reports in Dutch crime news stories.…”

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Historical Trends in the Pragmatics of Indirect Reports in Dutch Crime News Stories

Krieken¹,

Sanders²

2018

Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy &Amp; Psychology

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Recent research has shown that the use of indirect reports in Dutch crime news stories has decreased significantly over the past 150 years. In this study we explore possible explanations for this decrease by assessing variations in the degree of intertwinement between the voices of journalist and news source in a corpus of 528 indirect reports. Results indicate that in indirect reports from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the journalist's voice was typically either dominant over or strongly intertwined with the news source's voice. In later periods, the voices of journalist and news source seem to have become disentangled. The decrease in indirect reports in Dutch news stories might thus be explained by an increased avoidance of the subjective intertwining of voices and, correspondingly, an increased separation of responsibilities between journalist and news sources. In this sense, the pragmatics of indirect reports became similar to the pragmatics of direct reports, causing the grammatically embedding indirect mode to lose its distinctive function. KeywordsDutch journalism • crime news stories • voice intertwinement • historical analysis K. van Krieken ( ) • J. Sanders

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Indirect reports as language games

Cited by 31 publications

References 10 publications

Diagnosing Misattribution of Commitments: A Normative and Pragmatic Model of for Assessing Straw Man

Diagnosing Misattribution of Commitments: A Normative and Pragmatic Model of for Assessing Straw Man

Understanding misunderstandings. Presuppositions and presumptions in doctor-patient chronic care consultations

Historical Trends in the Pragmatics of Indirect Reports in Dutch Crime News Stories

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