Articulating a framework for unarticulated constituents

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernesto Perini‐Santos
Keyword(s):  
Unarticulated Constituents

Something out of nothing? Rethinking unarticulated constituents

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Begoña Vicente ◽  
Marjolein Groefsema
Keyword(s):  
Unarticulated Constituents

Pragmatic presupposition and unarticulated constituents

Lingua ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 206 ◽  
pp. 112-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana
Keyword(s):  
Unarticulated Constituents ◽  
Pragmatic Presupposition

Epistemic Contextualism, Unarticulated Constituents and Hidden Variables

Dialogue ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-246
Author(s):  
AHMAD REZA HEMMATI MOGHADDAM
Keyword(s):  
Hidden Variables ◽  
Epistemic Contextualism ◽  
Truth Conditions ◽  
Epistemic Standard ◽  
Hidden Variable ◽  
Unarticulated Constituents

Epistemic contextualism was devised mainly to provide a solution to the problem of skepticism based on a thesis about the truth conditions of knowledge attributing sentences. In this paper, I’ll examine two possible semantic bases of epistemic contextualism i.e., (i) the epistemic standard is an unarticulated constituent, (ii) the epistemic standard is a hidden variable. After showing that the unarticulated constituent thesis is incompatible with epistemic contextualism, I’ll argue that the hidden variable account remains unconvincing. My aim in this paper is to show that questions remain that must be answered before epistemic contextualism can claim success in the project of resolving skepticism.

Presupposition Triggering and Disambiguation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Sennet
Keyword(s):  
Conventional Approach ◽  
Question Under Discussion ◽  
Unarticulated Constituents

In this essay, we will consider the prospects for recent Gricean theories concerning presupposition triggering. Gricean explanations of presupposition triggering tend to ground triggering in principles concerning the question under discussion or the topic of the sentence. This presents a challenge to the general anti-Gricean conventional approach advocated by Lepore and Stone. We will argue against Gricean approaches and for a conventionalist model. We will also consider how approaches to the phenomena that have motivated Neo-Griceans to posit unarticulated constituents fare on such an approach to presupposition triggering.

What is wrong with unarticulated constituents?

Human Affairs ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marián Zouhar
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Explanation ◽  
Logical Form ◽  
Truth Conditions ◽  
Unarticulated Constituents

AbstractIt is quite popular nowadays to postulate various kinds of unarticulated constituents that have essential bearing on truth conditions of utterances. F. Recanati champions an elaborated version of contextualism according to which one has to distinguish two kinds of unarticulated constituents: those that are articulated at the level of the logical form of a given sentence and those that are truly unarticulated. Recanati offers a theory which explains the manner of incorporating truly unarticulated constituents into the propositions expressed. This theory invokes variadic functions. The present paper shows that variadic functions are unnecessary because no constituents are truly unarticulated in the sense assumed by Recanati. An alternative explanation is offered according to which all propositional constituents are either explicitly or implicitly represented at the syntactic level.

Experimental pragmatics

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merrill Garrett ◽  
Robert M. Harnish
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Experimental Pragmatics ◽  
Unarticulated Constituents

Grice proposed to investigate ‘the total signification of the utterance’. One persistent criticism of Grice’s taxonomy of signification is that he missed an important category of information. This content, and/or the process of providing it, goes by a variety of labels: ‘generalized implicature’, ‘explicature’, ‘unarticulated constituents’, ‘default heuristics’, ‘impliciture’. In this study we first take a sample of such phenomena and, from the point of view of pure pragmatics, survey the central descriptions of the content expressed and the mechanisms that might deliver these contents. We then, from the point of view of experimental pragmatics, focus on two accounts: Levinson’s I-heuristic, and Bach’s standardization. We find experimental evidence for the existence of such implicitures, and for the use of language specific standardizations over language neutral background ­information.

scholarly journals Unarticulated constituents and neo-Gricean pragmatics

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Huang
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Conversational Implicature ◽  
Pragmatic Theory ◽  
Pragmatic Enrichment ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Semantics And Pragmatics ◽  
Gricean Pragmatics ◽  
Unarticulated Constituents

Abstract In recent years, the concept of unarticulated constitutes has generated a fierce debate both in the philosophy of language and in linguistic semantics and pragmatics. By unarticulated constituent is meant a propositional (or conceptual) constituent of a sentence that is communicated by the speaker in uttering that sentence, but is not linguistically represented in that uttered sentence. The main aim of this article is to provide a neo-Gricean pragmatic analysis of unarticulated constituents, showing that the current existing mechanism of neo-Gricean pragmatic theory can handle unarticulated constituents in a straightforward and elegant way. Second, I defend the neo-Gricean position that the pragmatic enrichment of unarticulated constituents is nothing but a neo-Gricean, pre-semantic conversational implicature. And third and finally, I briefly evaluate an alternative, formal syntactico-semantic analysis of unarticulated constituents.

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