This is excellent! Thanks for the pointer. Maybe I missed the whole document link. But I've assembled the PDFs into 1 file if anyone would like me to send it to them.
On 7/24/22 06:12, Roger Critchlow wrote:
Here's a new free book at MIT Press which I'm finding readable. Suggested by hackernews. https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5329/The-Art-of-Abduction <https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5329/The-Art-of-Abduction> From the Introduction: If you are a linguist, I encourage you to read on because abduction has been said to be fundamental to determining what a speaker means by an utterance. Specifically, it has been argued that decoding utterances is a matter of figuring out the best explanation of why someone said what she said when she said it. Even more specifically, authors working in the field of pragmatics have suggested that hearers invoke the Gricean maxims of conversation (Grice, 1989) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle>] to help them work out the best explanation of a speaker's utterance whenever the semantic content of the utterance is insufficiently informative for the purposes of the conversation, or is /too/ informative, or is off topic, or is implausible, or is otherwise odd or inappropriate. As Yan Huang (1994, p. 2) puts it, "What pragmatics does is to provide a set of ... /explanatory/ principles which constrains the interpretation or production of an utterance whose linguistic representation has already been antecedently cognized" (emphasis mine).
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