Mankowitz Poppy
Department of Philosophy, Cotham House, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS6 6JL United Kingdom.
Synthese. 2021;199(3-4):5603-5622. doi: 10.1007/s11229-021-03038-2. Epub 2021 Mar 15.
There has been recent interest in the idea that speakers who appear to be having a verbal dispute may in fact be engaged in a : they are communicating information about how they believe an expression should be used. For example, individuals involved in a dispute about whether a racehorse is an athlete might be communicating their diverging views about how 'athlete' should be used. While many have argued that metalinguistic negotiation is a pervasive feature of philosophical and everyday discourse, the literature currently lacks an account of this phenomenon that can be situated within a 'mainstream' view of communication. I propose an independently motivated account where individuals reconstruct metalinguistic propositions by means of a pragmatic, Gricean reasoning process.
最近，人们对这样一种观点产生了兴趣，即那些看似在进行言语争论的说话者实际上可能在参与一场元语言协商：他们在传达有关他们认为某个表达方式应如何使用的信息。例如，参与关于赛马是否是运动员的争论的人可能在传达他们对“运动员”一词应如何使用的不同观点。虽然许多人认为元语言协商是哲学和日常话语的一个普遍特征，但目前的文献中缺乏一种能够置于“主流”交流观点之中的对这一现象的解释。我提出一种基于独立动机的解释，即个体通过实用主义的格莱斯推理过程来重构元语言命题。
