Varieties of Metalinguistic Negotiation

Plunkett, David; Sundell, Timothy

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“…48 For connected discussion about other areas of philosophical inquiry (focused on epistemology and ethics, respectively), see 2021b. 49 For an overview of how we understand "metalinguistic negotiation", including our take on some of the different varieties of it, see Plunkett and Sundell 2023, in which we expand on and clarify the basic views about "metalinguistic negotiation" that we first put forward in Plunkett and Sundell 2013a. 50 See Plunkett and Sundell 2013b.…”

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Legal Interpretation, Conceptual Ethics, and Alternative Legal Concepts

Plunkett

2023

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When legal theorists ask questions about legal interpretation—such as what it fundamentally is, what it aims at, or how it should work—they often do so in ways closely tethered to existing legal practice. For example: they try to understand how an activity legal actors (purportedly) already engage in should be done better, such as how judges can better learn about the content of the law. In this paper, I discuss a certain kind of “conceptual ethics” approach to thinking about legal interpretation, which is less tethered to existing legal practice (or the existing meaning of core pieces of legal terminology). The approach I explore asks questions about legal interpretation in a way that is tethered to what legal (or “legal‐ish”) concepts people should deploy, as part of arguments on behalf of engaging in legal (or “legal‐ish”) practices different from our current ones. In exploring this approach, I aim to help us better understand the landscape of philosophical issues about legal interpretation, including parts of it that I think have been underexplored.

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Legal Interpretation, Conceptual Ethics, and Alternative Legal Concepts

Plunkett

2023

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“…Although there are various approaches to what is or may be engineered (Isaac, 2021; 1 I understand the social sciences broadly as embracing also organizational and behavioral research (with exclusion of behavioral genetics and neurosciences). Koch, 2021;Koch, Löhr, & Pinder, 2023;Plunkett & Sundell, 2023), I understand CE as about concepts taken as representational devices. Of course, those representational devices may be conceived in various ways and we usually select here between philosophical and psychological views (Isaac, 2023).…”

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Prof. Paulina Buchwald-Pelcowa (1934-2021) (Tomasz Makowski)

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Is Metalinguistic Usage a Conversational Implicature?

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2023

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I argue against the view that metalinguistic usage is a form of conversational implicature. That view, suggested by Thomasson (Anal Philos 57(4):1-28, 2016) and Belleri (Philos Stud 174(9):2211–2226, 2017), has been most recently fleshed out by Mankowitz (Synthese 199:5603–5622, 2021). I provide two types of criticism to the implicature view. From an empirical point of view, metalinguistic usage differs in key respects from standard cases of conversational implicature. From a conceptual standpoint, I argue that the calculation algorithm provided by the implicature view makes undesirable predictions. Although my main objective is negative, I end the paper by sketching an alternative neo-Stalnakerian view of metalinguistic usage, that can be gathered from work by Barker (Linguist Philos 25(1):1–36, 2002; Inquiry 56(2–3):240–257, 2013) and others.

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Varieties of Metalinguistic Negotiation

Cited by 4 publications

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Legal Interpretation, Conceptual Ethics, and Alternative Legal Concepts

Legal Interpretation, Conceptual Ethics, and Alternative Legal Concepts

Prof. Paulina Buchwald-Pelcowa (1934-2021) (Tomasz Makowski)

Is Metalinguistic Usage a Conversational Implicature?

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