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  • 标题:Pragmatist Pragmatics: the Functional Context of Utterances
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  • 作者:John COLLIER ; Konrad TALMONT-KAMINSKI
  • 期刊名称:Philosophica
  • 印刷版ISSN:0379-8402
  • 出版年度:2005
  • 卷号:75
  • 期号:1
  • 出版社:Ghent University
  • 摘要:Formal pragmatics plays an important, though secondary, role in modern analytical philosophy of language: its aim is to explain how context can affect the meaning of certain special kinds of utterances. During recent years, the adequacy of formal tools has come under attack, often leading to one or another form of relativism or antirealism. 1 Our aim will be to extend the critique to formal pragmatics while showing that sceptical conclusions can be avoided by developing a different approach to the issues. In particular, we will show that formal pragmatics cannot provide a complete account of how context affects the meaning of utterances, both on its own terms and when faced with evidence of important aspects of natural languages. The focal issue is the relevant kind of context in which pragmatics should examine utterances. Our contention will be that the relevant context of an utterance is determined by the function of that utterance, this function being dependent upon the primary function of language – to convey information. We will argue that the functions of utterances and of language are too broad to be caught by the tools of formal pragmatics of the sort advocated by Richard Montague (1968, 1974), which are an extension of the methods of traditional model
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