Literal meaning, minimal propositions, and pragmatic processing
Literal meaning, minimal propositions, and pragmatic processing
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DOI：
10.1016/s0378-2166(01)00042-x
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发表时间：
2002-04-01
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Cutting, JC
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作者：
Bezuidenhout, A;Cutting, JC
关联理论家和其他学者认为，说话者所说的话在很大程度上是由语境因素决定的。这一争论对格赖斯所谓的广义会话含义产生了影响。语境主义者认为，格赖斯认为以广义的方式隐含的命题应该被视为所说内容的一部分。另一方面，格赖斯主义者坚持认为这些都是会话中的暗示，他们致力于为所说的话的作用假设更多的最小命题。本文探讨了这些最小命题是否在话语理解中起作用。三个语用处理模式，体现了竞争对手的哲学观点的一些假设，假设。一系列的实验设计，以测试这些处理模型的预测结果的报告。我们的研究结果提供了一些初步的支持，在一个模型中，最小的和上下文丰富的解释是并行构建的，对丰富的解释有偏见。然而，本文的最后一节提出了一些方法，在这些方法中，最小命题的作用问题仍然有待于实证探索。(C)2002 Elsevier Science B.V.保留所有权利。
Relevance theorists and others have argued that what a speaker 'says' is determined by contextual factors to a greater extent than allowed for by Grice. This dispute has consequences for what Grice called generalized conversational implicatures. Contextualists have argued that the propositions that Grice thinks of as implicated in a generalized way should be treated as part of what is said. Griceans, on the other hand, by insisting that these are conversationally implicated, are committed to postulating more minimal propositions for the role of what is said. This paper examines whether such minimal propositions play a role in utterance understanding. Three pragmatic processing models, which embody some of the assumptions of the rival philosophical views, are postulated. The results of a series of experiments designed to test the predictions of these processing models are reported. Our results lend some initial support to a model in which minimal and contextually enriched interpretations are constructed in parallel, with a bias towards the enriched interpretations. However, the final section of the paper suggests a number of ways in which the issue of the role of minimal propositions still remains open for empirical exploration. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.