Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism Applied to ‘Knows’

2017 ◽  
pp. 230-239
Author(s):  
Herman Cappelen
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Semantic Minimalism

Shared assumptions: Semantic minimalism and Relevance Theory

2007 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 647-681 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANIEL WEDGWOOD
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Relevance Theory ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Semantic Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Linguistic Communication ◽  
Content Sharing ◽  
Shared Content ◽  
Semantic Minimalism

Cappelen & Lepore (2005, 2006a, 2007) note that linguistic communication requires ‘shared content’ and claim that Relevance Theory makes content sharing impossible. This criticism rests upon two important errors. The first is a flawed understanding of Relevance Theory, shown in the application of an omniscient third party perspective to parts of Relevance Theory that depend only upon subjective judgements made by the addressee of an utterance. The second is confusion about different definitions of content. Cappelen & Lepore's evidence actually involves the communication of what they term Speech Act content, which need not be perfectly ‘shared’ according to their own position. Looking beyond this flawed criticism, a general comparison of Relevance Theory with Cappelen & Lepore's semantic minimalism reveals significant parallels, pointing to a notable convergence of two distinct approaches – one cognitive-pragmatic, the other philosophical-semantic – on the rejection of currently dominant assumptions in linguistic semantics. The key remaining difference is Cappelen & Lepore's claim that shared content is propositional. This contradicts other claims made for such content and in any case plays no active role in the explanation of communication. Cappelen & Lepore's position thus poses no threat to Relevance Theory; rather, Relevance Theory can benefit from their philosophical analysis of the state of semantic theory.

scholarly journals Herman Cappelen and Ernest Lepore, Insensitive Semantics. A Defence of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (120) ◽  
pp. 148-152
Author(s):  
Alessandro Capone
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Semantic Minimalism

Herman Cappelen and Ernest Lepore, Insensitive Semantics. A Defenceof Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism, Blackwell,Oxford, 2005, xii + 219 pp.

A Tall Tale: In Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism

2004 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 2-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herman Cappelen ◽  
Ernest Lepore
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Psychological Reality ◽  
Role Semantic ◽  
Semantic Minimalism ◽  
Comparative Adjectives

In Insensitive Semantics (2005), we argue for two theses: Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism. In this paper, we outline our defense against two objections often raised against Semantic Minimalism. We begin with five stage-setting sections. These lead to the first objection, viz., that it might follow from our view that comparative adjectives are context insensitive. We defend our view against that objection (not, as you might expect, by denying that implication, but by endorsing it). Having done so, we address a second objection, viz., that Semantic Minimalism makes it difficult to see what role semantic content plays in communicative exchanges. We respond and end with a reversal, i.e., we argue that even though the second objection fails against us, it works against those who raise the objection. In particular, we show that our critics, in particular, Carston (2002) and Recanati (2004), end up with a notion of communicated content that fails various tests for psychological reality.

SEXUAL EUPHEMISM EXPRESSED IN POP AND HIP HOP LYRIC SONGS: A PRAGMATIC STUDY

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-122
Author(s):  
Cita Mustika Kusumah
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Taboo Words ◽  
Directive Speech ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Sexual Body

This research aims to describe and give an overview of the use of sexual euphemism in pop and hip hop lyric songs to avoid taboo words which are usually unfreely to mention in public. The researcher uses qualitative method and descriptive method to analyze the data. The researcher uses forty songs consist of twenty pop songs and twenty hip hop songs to be analysed. From forty songs, the researcher finds ninety seven data. Researcher believes the data are found to contain sexual euphemism in the utterance that included in pragmatic study.Researcher describes and analyzes every single of data that are included the theory of Allan and Buridge (1991). From the research data, the researcher found that there is a differential usage of sexual euphemism in pop and hip hop which is sexual euphemism in sexual activity appears more frequently in pop songs and sexual euphemism in sexual body parts appears more frequently in hip hop songs. Both pop and hip hop songs use representative speech act more frequently than directive speech act. Euphemism was used in the lyrics to avoid words that are considered taboo in some communities.Keywords: speech act, sexual euphemismINTRODUCTIONIn

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