Título del libro: Procedural Meaning: Problems And Perspectives
Título del capítulo: On the status of procedural meaning in natural language
MARIA DEL CARMEN CURCO COBOS;
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Idioma:
Inglés
Año de publicación:
2011
Palabras clave:
Explicit representation; Pragmatic disposition; Pragmatics; Rules; Semantic
Resumen:
Procedural meaning has standardly been treated in the literature as semantic and representational. Recently, arguments have been put forward to suggest that in fact procedural meaning is dispositional and pragmatic in nature. In this chapter I revise these arguments in detail, and conclude that there are important reasons to assume the existence of a procedural non-dispositional semantics. I argue that procedural lexical items behave rather differently from typical dispositions, so that a dispositional view of them makes the wrong predictions. I sketch a possible alternative view that overcomes the problems envisaged by the dispositional view, but which maintains a representational and semantic stand on procedural meaning. I suggest a role for two possible genuine dispositions inbuilt in the semantic cognitive sub-system. Besides, I look at a number of communicative phenomena that have a procedural character, but which seem to be better understood as causal dispositions of the pragmatic system. The upshot is that not everything procedural in language and communication is of a kind. While it seems that procedural lexical items are better treated as encoding explicitly instructions on how to manipulate representations as part of their semantics, there are other aspects that affect the construction of meaning in interaction that are indeed better understood in dispositional terms. © 2011 Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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ISBN:
9780857240941
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On the status of procedural meaning in natural language
Página inicial:
33
Página final:
54
