Moorean utterances and the illocutionary dynamics of assertion

IF 1.8 2区文学 N/A LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Intercultural Pragmatics Pub Date : 2022-05-11 DOI:10.1515/ip-2022-3006

P. Labinaz

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Abstract

Abstract This paper aims to show, in the light of an Austin-inspired speech-act theoretical framework, that there is a fundamental difference in the absurdity that occurs when one utters either the belief or the knowledge version of Moorean sentences (whose linguistic form amounts to “p, but I don’t believe/know that p”) and that this difference lies in the kind of speech act norms that their utterance overtly violates. To do so, I will consider the conversational patterns in which the two versions might emerge and, in particular, what linguistic reactions they might elicit in the audience. I will show that, while it is possible to imagine conversational patterns in which someone asserts something and also says that she cannot believe it to be true (although they seem to occur very rarely), the same cannot be said for the knowledge version. I shall argue that while in both cases, a speech act norm appears to be overtly violated, these violations regard different kinds of speech act norms, and thereby result in two different kinds of absurdity.

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摩尔语话语与断言的言外动态

本文以奥斯汀的言语行为理论为框架，当一个人说出摩尔语句子的信仰或知识版本（其语言形式相当于“p，但我不相信/知道p”）时，发生的荒谬性存在根本差异，这种差异在于他们的言论公然违反了言语行为规范。为此，我将考虑这两个版本可能出现的对话模式，特别是它们可能在观众中引发的语言反应。我将展示的是，虽然可以想象对话模式，在这种模式中，有人断言某事，并说她不相信它是真的（尽管这种情况似乎很少发生），但在知识版本中却不能这样说。我认为，虽然在这两种情况下，言论行为规范似乎都被公然违反，但这些违反行为涉及不同类型的言论行为规范，从而导致两种不同类型的荒谬。

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期刊介绍： Intercultural Pragmatics is a fully peer-reviewed forum for theoretical and applied pragmatics research. The goal of the journal is to promote the development and understanding of pragmatic theory and intercultural competence by publishing research that focuses on general theoretical issues, more than one language and culture, or varieties of one language. Intercultural Pragmatics encourages ‘interculturality’ both within the discipline and in pragmatic research. It supports interaction and scholarly debate between researchers representing different subfields of pragmatics including the linguistic, cognitive, social, and interlanguage paradigms. The intercultural perspective is relevant not only to each line of research within pragmatics but also extends to several other disciplines such as anthropology, theoretical and applied linguistics, psychology, communication, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, and bi- and multilingualism. Intercultural Pragmatics makes a special effort to cross disciplinary boundaries. What we primarily look for is innovative approaches and ideas that do not always fit into existing paradigms, and lead to new ways of thinking about language. Intercultural Pragmatics has always encouraged the publication of theoretical papers including linguistic and philosophical pragmatics that are very important for research in intercultural pragmatics.

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