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2 - Linguistic Theory and Pragmatics

from Part I - Theoretical Foundations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2019

Sandrine Zufferey ,
Jacques Moeschler  and
Anne Reboul
Sandrine Zufferey
Affiliation:
Universität Bern, Switzerland
Jacques Moeschler
Affiliation:
Université de Genève
Anne Reboul
Affiliation:
Institute for Cognitive Sciences-Marc Jeannerod, CNRS UMR 5304
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Summary

This chapter addresses the issue of the place of pragmatics within various linguistic frameworks. It starts with formal linguistic theories in the Chomskyan tradition, before moving on to functional theories. It is argued that in both cases, pragmatics is not really accounted for, and is deemed to fall outside the scope of linguistics per se. The reason pragmatics is not accounted for is that all these models rely on a code model of communication, whereas pragmatic theories presuppose an inferential model of communication.

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formal models of languagefunctional models of languageChomskyJackendoffpragmaticscode model of communicationinferential model of communication
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Implicatures , pp. 22 - 44
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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