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Pragmatics, Modularity and Mind-reading
| Content Provider | Hyper Articles en Ligne (HAL) |
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| Author | Sperber, Dan Wilson, Deirdre |
| Abstract | The central problem for pragmatics is that sentence meaning vastly underdetermines speaker's meaning. The goal of pragmatics is to explain how the gap between sentence meaning and speaker's meaning is bridged. This paper defends the broadly Gricean view that pragmatic interpretation is ultimately an exercise in mind-reading, involving the inferential attribution of intentions. We argue, however, that the interpretation process does not simply consist in applying general mind-reading abilities to a particular (communicative) domain. Rather, it involves a dedicated comprehension module, with its own special principles and mechanisms. We show how such a metacommunicative module might have evolved, and what principles and mechanisms it might contain. |
| Ending Page | 33 |
| Page Count | 31 |
| Starting Page | 3 |
| File Format | |
| ISSN | 02681064 |
| e-ISSN | 14680017 |
| Journal | Mind and Language |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 17 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Wiley |
| Publisher Date | 2002-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | linguistic communication theory of mind mind-reading mindreading modularity evolutionary psychology evolution of language linguistics philosophy of language pragmatics relevance relevance theory scco shs Cognitive science domain_scco.cogpsy Humanities and Social Sciences Linguistics domain_shs.langue.pragmatics Philosophy domain_shs.phil.language domain_shs.phil.mind |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Philosophy Linguistics and Language |
