Towards a normative epistemic account of presuppositions  

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Domaneschi, Filippo

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 43 no. 15 (2011), page 3822–3831.
Topik: Presupposition Assertion Appropriateness Epistemic contextualism
Fulltext: Domaneschi_F.pdf (162.44KB)

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In this paper I propose a normative account of pragmatic presupposition as a criticism and enrichment of Gauker’s theory. By an appeal to epistemic contextualism, my aim is to integrate Gauker’s normative account with an explanation of the different ways in which speakers ought to share presuppositions. In particular, I focus my analysis on some stereotypical situations to show that the epistemic goal of a conversation determines the level of justification of a presupposition. Finally, I claim that coherence with the level of justification is a condition for appropriateness of assertions: in order to appropriately assert a sentence p that requires a presupposition q, speakers should recognize how they ought to be able to justify q in a specific communicative context

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