Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy: Part 2 Theories and Applications

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by  Alessandro Capone, Marco Carapezza, Franco Lo Piparo

Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology 20
Alessandro Capone
Marco Carapezza
Franco Lo Piparo Editors
Further Advances
in Pragmatics and
Philosophy:
Part 2 Theories and
Applications
Perspectives in Pragmatics,
Philosophy & Psychology
Volume 20
Editor-in-Chief
AlessandroCapone,UniversityofMessina,Italy
ConsultingEditors
KeithAllan,MonashUniversity,Melbourne,Australia
LouiseCummings,TheHongKongPolytechnicUniversity,HongKong
WayneA.Davis,GeorgetownUniversity,Washington,USA
IgorDouven,Paris-SorbonneUniversity,France
YanHuang,UniversityofAuckland,NewZealand
IstvanKecskes,StateUniversityofNewYorkatAlbany,USA
FrancoLoPiparo,UniversityofPalermo,Italy
AntoninoPennisi,UniversityofMessina,Italy
EditorialBoardMembers
NoelBurton-Roberts,UniversityofNewcastle,UK
BrianButler,UniversityofNorthCarolina,Asheville,USA
MarcoCarapezza,UniversityofPalermo,Italy
FeliceCimatti,UniversitàdellaCalabria,Cosenza,Italy
ErosCorazza,CarletonUniversity,Ottawa,Canada
MarceloDascal,TelAvivUniversity,Israel
MichaelDevitt,GraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork,USA
FransvanEemeren,UniversityofAmsterdam,TheNetherlands
AlessandraFalzone,UniversityofMessina,Italy
NeilFeit,StateUniversityofNewYork,Fredonia,USA
AlessandraGiorgi,Ca’FoscariUniversityofVenice,Italy
LarryHorn,YaleUniversity,NewHaven,USA
KlausvonHeusinger,UniversityofStuttgart,Germany
KatarzynaJaszczolt,UniversityofCambridge,UK
FerencKiefer,HungarianAcademyofSciences,Budapest,Hungary
KepaKorta,ILCLI,Donostia,Spain
ErnestLepore,RutgersUniversity,NewBrunswick,USA
StephenC.Levinson,MaxPlanckInstituteforPsycholinguistics,Nijmegen,TheNetherlands
FabrizioMacagno,NewUniversityofLisbon,Portugal
JacobL.Mey,UniversityofSouthernDenmark,Odense,Denmark
PietroPerconti,UniversityofMessina,Italy
FrancescaPiazza,UniversityofPalermo,Italy
RolandPosner,BerlinInstituteofTechnology,Germany
MarkRichard,HarvardUniversity,Cambridge,USA
NathanSalmon,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara,USA
StephenR.Schiffer,NewYorkUniversity,USA
MichelSeymour,UniversityofMontreal,Canada
MandySimons,CarnegieMellonUniversity,Pittsburgh,USA
TimothyWilliamson,UniversityofOxford,UK
AnnaWierzbicka,AustralianNationalUniversity,Canberra,Australia
DorotaZieliñska,JesuitUniversityofPhilosophyandEducationIgnatianum,Kraków,Poland
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Introduction
IampleasedtointroduceVolume2,whichpromisestosurpass,inbothqualityand
quantity,Volume1ofFurtherStudiesinPragmaticsandPhilosophy.Tothosewho
were reluctant to be included in Volume 2, I can now reply that the volume starts
withStephenSchiffer’sandIstvankecskes’papersandisfollowedbymanyother
eminent authors. No more needs to be said about this, except for the fact that the
editorsarereallypleasedbytheresult.Thevolumeisnotonlytheoreticalbutalso
givessomethoughttohowpragmatictheorycanbeappliedinpracticetopolitical
problems(seethethreepapersonTrump’s“request”or“demand”toFBIDirector
Comey. It is pleasing to know that theories can be put to practical use and can be
useful in daily life (most importantly in the application of the laws). Even though
thefoundingfatherofpragmatics,PaulGrice,nevergaveintensivethoughttothis
problem,heledthewayinapplyingpragmaticstophilosophy,fromwhichitfollows
thatwecanapplypragmaticstootherspheresoflife,likethelaworpolitics.
Pragmatics,inmyviewofthings,isabouthowrationalitycanbeappliedtothe
interpretation(andconstruction)ofdiscourses(Pennisi,Falzone2017).Rationality
isuniversal–evenifmyfriendJockWong(inapersonalcommunication)suggests
otherwise, saying that rationality in pragmatics can be seen as the characteristic
of literate society and that it is not impossible to imagine that in some remote
tribeslackofrationalityisthenorm(peoplecanhaveworldviewsthatcanbevery
differentfromours).IreplytoJockWong’sinterestingandstimulatingchallengeby
sayingthattherearedifferentaspectsofrationalitytobetakenintoconsideration.
Rationalitycanbeseenastheresultofformaltrainingorteachingandexposure
towaysofthinkingthatarerational.Oritcanbeseenasthesetofnaturalresources
availabletothemindtoresolveproblemsthathaveneverbeenencounteredbefore
andthatprovidetimelyresponsestoproblemsastheyarise.Whetherrationalityis
connectedwithafullydevelopedlanguagethatistheresultofexposuretoculture,
itisaproblemthatcannotberesolvedinthisIntroduction.Veryprobably,thereis
a connection with language and the ability to make discourses and use discourse
markers (or rationality markers, such as “because,” etc.). So, the prediction is
that wherever there are languages capable of expressing causal connections or
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teleologicalconnections,rationalityisacommonfeatureofdiscoursesandbehavior.
I am neutral as to the issue whether this is a universal feature of discourses or
language, even if, a priori, I can say that it is difficult to have languages that tell
stories about the past or make predictions of the future without such rationality
markers.
Rationalitycanbeusedtounderstandthespeaker’sintentions,giventhenumber
ofcontextualcluesused.Whydidthespeakersaythis?Whythisheorshepreferthis
expressiontothatone,whichwaseasilyavailable?Whyisitthatthespeakerdidnot
saywhatheorshedidnotsay?Answerstothesequestionscansteerinterpretation
inonedirectionratherthaninanother.
The business of pragmalinguists is to dissect discourses and find out the
rationality of saying one thing rather than another. Their business is also to show
that language and even language structure are greatly amplified by pragmatics –
thatistosaybyrationalresourcesavailabletolanguageusers.Thisiswhatlinguists
andphilosophersoftenrefertoaspragmaticintrusionintowhatissaidorinferential
enrichment(freeenrichment).
Pragmaticsandphilosophyareinterconnectedinthebusinessofexploringhow
pragmaticintrusioncanbeappliedtolanguagebutalsotophilosophicalproblems.
Igor Douven with his paper on the Pragmatics of Belief showed us the way and
toldushowpragmaticscanbeappliedtophilosophical(epistemological)problems.
Douven(2010)isanimportantexampletofollow.
DepartmentofCognitivescience AlessandroCapone
UniversityofMessina,Messina,Italy
References
CaponeAlessandro.Knowinghowandpragmaticintrusion.“InterculturalPragmatics”8/4(2011),
pp.543–570.
Douven,Igor.2010.Thepragmaticsofbelief.JournalofPragmatics42(1):35–47.
Pennisi,Antonino,Falzone,Alessandra.2017.Darwinianbiolinguistics.Cham,Springer.
Contents
PartI Theories
VagueSpeaker-Meaning......................................................... 3
StephenSchiffer
IndirectReportsintheInterpretationofContractsandStatutes:A
GriceanTheoryofCoordinationandCommonKnowledge ................ 25
RichardWarner
ShouldInterculturalCommunicationChangetheWayWeThink
AboutLanguage? ................................................................ 41
IstvanKecskes
CognitivePragmaticsandEvolutionism....................................... 63
AntoninoPennisiandAlessandraFalzone
TheSemantics–PragmaticsInterface:AnEmpiricalInvestigation ........ 81
IgorDouvenandKarolinaKrz˙yzanowska
ReferentsandFixingReference ................................................ 101
HowardWettstein
Diagnosing Misattribution of Commitments: A Normative
andPragmaticModelofforAssessingStrawMan........................... 111
DouglasWaltonandFabrizioMacagno
DescriptionsinUse............................................................... 137
PaoloLeonardi
PresuppositionTriggersandPresumptiveInterpretation................... 155
FabrizioMacagno
SupermanSemantics ............................................................ 181
PaulSaka
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VarietiesofFictionOperators .................................................. 199
AlbertoVoltolini
OrganicMeaning:AnApproachtoCommunicationwithMinimal
AppealtoMinds.................................................................. 211
MitchellGreen
PolysemyandGestaltistComputation.SomeNotesonGestaltist
Compositionality ................................................................. 229
FrancescoLa Mantia
TheFieldModelofLanguageandFreeEnrichment......................... 239
DorotaZielin´ska
ConversationalImplicaturesofNormativeDiscourse ....................... 251
FrancescaPoggi
NotOnlySlurs.APragma-RhetoricalApproachtoVerbalAbuse......... 273
FrancescaPiazza
WhatCanLinguisticsLearnFromIndirectReports?....................... 289
GraziaBasile
PartII Applications
NarratingtheCinderellaStoryinAdultswithPrimaryProgressive
Aphasia............................................................................ 301
LouiseCummings
On Making a Sandwich: Procedural Discourse in Adults
withRight-HemisphereDamage ............................................... 331
LouiseCummings
ResearchinClinicalPragmatics:TheEssenceofaNewPhilosophy,
theStateoftheArtandFutureResearch ..................................... 357
PaolaPennisi
Executive Functioning, Visuo-Spatial and Inter-Personal Skill
PreservationinAlzheimer’sandMildCognitiveImpairment.............. 373
SaraSchatzandMelvinGonzález-Rivera
A Contribution from the Perspective of Language Cognitive
SciencesontheDefaultSemanticsandArchitectureofMindDebate...... 391
CaterinaScianna
PersonalReferenceinSubjectswithAutism.................................. 409
PaolaPennisi
TwoWaysofSaying‘ThankYou’inHongKongCantonese:m-goi
vs.do-ze............................................................................ 435
JockWongandCongyiLiu
Contents ix
RespectingOtherPeople’sBoundaries:AQuintessentiallyAnglo
CulturalValue.................................................................... 449
JockWong
Towards a Cognitively-Mediated Conceptualisation
oftheCooperativePrinciple:AnIntroduction
totheMaximofDiplomacy ..................................................... 469
MostafaMoradyMoghaddam
MappingPlacesofOrigin....................................................... 491
MariaPiaPozzato
TakingaStance:AnAccountforPersonsandInstitutions.................. 513
JeffreyS.Helmreich
Marking Online Community Membership: The Pragmatics
ofStance-taking .................................................................. 535
JonathanR.White
The Cathartic Function of Language: The Case Study
ofaSchizophrenicPatient....................................................... 549
AntoninoBucca
“I Hope You Will Let Flynn Go”: Trump,
Comey, Pragmemes and Socio-pragmatics (A Strawsonian
Analysis)........................................................................... 561
AlessandroCaponeandAntoninoBucca
AReplyto“IHopeYouWillLetFlynnGo”.................................. 577
RichardWarner
Capone,Bucca,WarnerandLlewellynonPragmemesand“Ihope
YouWillLetFlynnGo” ......................................................... 587
BrianE.Butler