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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jane Walsh <[email protected]> Subject: Talk on pragmatics by Istevan Kecskes this afternoon Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:11:14 +0100 To: Heather Sanderson <[email protected]> Dear Heather There's a talk this afternoon on pragmatics which might be of interest to some people in Philosophy. Please could you circulate the information below? Thanks! Jane Professor Istevan Kecskes (State University of New York, Albany) Monday 24 June 2013, 16:00-17:30 Room GR06/07, Faculty of English, Sidgwick Site, West Road, Cambridge. The presentation argues that current pragmatic theories are usually hearer-centered. The reasons of hearer-centeredness are as follows: 1) Misinterpretation of the Gricean implicature, which is an aspect of speaker meaning rather than a meaning inferred by the hearer. 2) There has developed a powerful theory of utterances interpretation (Relevance Theory) whose focus is mainly on the hearer. I will argue that speaker utterance should be analyzed on its own rights and make three claims: 1) Speaker utterance is not just recipient design. It is the result of the interplay of recipient design and salience, which will be discussed from a socio-cognitive perspective. 2) In a speaker-focused approach linguistic underdeterminacy of linguistic signs may not work the way it does in a hearer-centered approach. The speaker's utterance from the speaker's perspective is a full proposition and does not need any enrichment and/or saturation. Underdeterminacy makes sense only from the hearer's perspe ctive. 3) In order to get as close as possible to what the speaker actually means we often need to go beyond utterance. This talk is part of the Cambridge Linguistics Forum series. Jane Walsh Coordinator, Cambridge Language Sciences Strategic Research Initiative www.languagesciences.cam.ac.uk 9 West Road Cambridge CB3 9DP Tel: +44 (0)1223 767397 [email protected] _____________________________________________________ Sent by the CamPhilEvents mailing list. To unsubscribe or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents Posts are archived here: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
