Lexical Pragmatic Adjustment and the Nature of Ad hoc Concepts
Lexical Pragmatic Adjustment and the Nature of Ad hoc Concepts
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词汇语用调整和临时概念的本质
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10.1163/18773109-00040204
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2012
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0.8
通讯作者:
Allott N
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Allott N
According to truth-conditional pragmatics, a word may contribute anad hocconcept to the proposition expressed, that is, something that differs from the concept the word encodes (the lexicalized concept). In relevance-theoretic lexical pragmatics,ad hocconcepts are treated like a species of concepts proper. Concepts as well asad hocconcepts are taken to be atomic. Lexical pragmatic adjustment is conceived as the formation of anad hocconcept that is narrower or broader in extension (or both) than the lexicalized concept involved. We argue that difference in extension should not be taken as the crucial feature of lexical pragmatics, sincead hocconcepts can have the same extension as the lexicalized concept. In contrast, we propose a positive view ofad hocconcepts as clusters of information poised to be used in inference. (Surprisingly,ad hocconcepts turn out not to be concepts at all.) The cluster account drops the assumption thatad hocconcepts are atomic and can therefore provide a satisfactory explanation of lexical pragmatic adjustment.
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