Linguistic form and relevance
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- — *) Vergl. Das Gebirge Niederschlesiens, der Grafschaft Glatz u. 8. w., darge- stellt durch C. V. Raumer, Berlin.
- Art von fossilem Zustande noch weichere Körper derselben, so wie besondere pflanzliche und thie- rische Theile.
- Verschiedene Formationen bilden die älteren und unteren, andere die oberen und jüngeren Flötzgebirge.
- Flabellaria, Palmacites, Noeggerathia bis jetzt gerechnet hat, bieten durch ihre Verbreitung eine interes- sante Erscheinung dar.
- Es sind Arten in allen Ländern Europas , besonders in Teutschland , England, Frankreich , Schweden und Rufsland , aber auch in Nordamerika u. s. w. von ihnen beobachtet*).
- Thiers, sehr wahrscheinlich aber zu dem Gen.
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...We have argued (Wilson and Sperber 1981; 1993; forthcoming; Sperber and Wilson 1986a; 1998a) that relevance-oriented inferential processes are efficient enough to allow for a much greater slack between sentence meaning and speaker's meaning than is generally assumed....
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...We also claim that there are higher-level explicatures which do not normally contribute to the truth conditions of the utterance (Wilson and Sperber 1993; Carston 2000; Ifantidou 2001)....
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...Properly linguistic expressions which have been analysed in procedural terms include discourse connectives, pronouns, mood indicators and discourse particles (cf. Blakemore 1987, 2002; König 1991; Wilson and Sperber 1993; Hall 2004)....
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...The fact that these utterances are perfectly acceptable creates a serious problem for Grice's account. In recent work, Robyn Carston (1988) has shown how to solve the problem and save the pragmatic approach....
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...To illustrate his approach, we will look at his treatment of 'on the other hand' in the 'Retrospective Epilogue' (Grice 1989: 362)....
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...Since Grice's William James Lectures (reprinted in Grice 1989), a sustained and largely successful attack on unreflective appeals to encoding, the borderline between linguistic communication and linguistic encoding has been a major focus of pragmatic research....
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Q2. What future works have the authors mentioned in the paper "Linguistic form and relevance" ?
In utterances with illocutionary adverbials, or parentheticals of the type discussed by Ifantidou ( forthcoming ), Itani ( l990 ) and Blakemore ( 1991 ), it might be argued, a la Grice, that the speaker is simultaneously making two assertions, each with its own truth conditions ; one might then investigate the possibility that intuitions about the truth conditions of the utterance as a whole are based on the assertion which makes the major contribution to overall relevance. In H. Parret, M. Sbisa and J. Verschueren ( eds ) Possibilities and limitations of pragmatics. What the authors hope to have shown is that such research can be usefully conducted within the broader cognitive and communicative framework outlined here. For further discussion and a range of additional examples, see Carston 1988.
Q3. What are the types of sentences that are conceptual and non-truth-conditional?
Various types of sentence adverbial, including the illocutionary adverbials 'seriously', 'frankly', etc., are conceptual and non-truth-conditional: they encode concepts which are constituents not of the proposition expressed but of higher-level explicatures..(c) Discourse connectives such as 'so' and 'after all' are procedural and non-truth-conditional: they encode procedural constraints on implicatures.
Q4. Does Grice's work amount to a reanalysis of conventional implicature?
Blakemore's work on discourse connectives amounts to a reanalysis in procedural terms of Grice's notion of conventional implicature.
Q5. What is the reason to treat illocutionary adverbials as both?
It seems, then, that there is good reason to treat illocutionary adverbials as both non-truth-conditional and conceptual, thus abandoning the idea that all non-truth-conditional meaning is necessarily procedural and cut to a single pattern.