Minimalism and Phenomenological Evidence
It has been recently argued that the phenomenology of semantic perception casts doubts on Grice’s theory of meaning. I defend the psychological and theoretical plausibility of a form of Gricean minimalism, by setting new boundaries to the semantic-pragmatic distinction. This strategy consists in aba...
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2017-11-01
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| description | It has been recently argued that the phenomenology of semantic perception casts doubts on Grice’s theory of meaning. I defend the psychological and theoretical plausibility of a form of Gricean minimalism, by setting new boundaries to the semantic-pragmatic distinction. This strategy consists in abandoning the entailment from what is said to what is meant, and advancing a conception of the semantic notion of what is said that departs from speaker-hearers’ intuitions. This proposal has important consequences both concerning the evidence that should be used by philosophers of language when evaluating semantic theories, and the way we should carve up linguistic processing. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cfed320ed9aa4a6bb2b04be68f1fe9af2022-12-22T02:42:13ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology1414-42471808-17112017-11-0121114115310.5007/1808-1711.2017v21n1p14127981Minimalism and Phenomenological EvidencePatricia Marechal0Harvard UniversityIt has been recently argued that the phenomenology of semantic perception casts doubts on Grice’s theory of meaning. I defend the psychological and theoretical plausibility of a form of Gricean minimalism, by setting new boundaries to the semantic-pragmatic distinction. This strategy consists in abandoning the entailment from what is said to what is meant, and advancing a conception of the semantic notion of what is said that departs from speaker-hearers’ intuitions. This proposal has important consequences both concerning the evidence that should be used by philosophers of language when evaluating semantic theories, and the way we should carve up linguistic processing.https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/50687Semanticspragmaticsminimalismsemantic perceptionlinguistic processing |
| spellingShingle | Patricia Marechal Minimalism and Phenomenological Evidence Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology Semantics pragmatics minimalism semantic perception linguistic processing |
| title | Minimalism and Phenomenological Evidence |
| title_full | Minimalism and Phenomenological Evidence |
| title_fullStr | Minimalism and Phenomenological Evidence |
| title_full_unstemmed | Minimalism and Phenomenological Evidence |
| title_short | Minimalism and Phenomenological Evidence |
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| topic | Semantics pragmatics minimalism semantic perception linguistic processing |
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