Introduction

The introduction sets the scene for the book by outlining the key questions to be investigated. Are we free? Are we morally responsible for what we do? What is it that we deserve? When is it right to blame someone for a morally wrong action? It introduces basic key terms within the debate regarding freedom and moral responsibility, such as ‘determinism’, ‘compatibilism’, and ‘incompatibilism’, and then outlines the structure of argument for the central claim of the book, namely that there is no truth regarding whether or not determinism is compatible with freedom and moral responsibility. There is only a truth relative to some context of utterance.

Spanish ‘mirative future’

This chapter provides an account of the Spanish ‘mirative future.’ Starting from the assumption that the Spanish future is an inferential evidential (Escandell-Vidal 2010, 2014, 2020), it is argued that mirativity is contextually inferred as a result of a combination of multiple factors that constrain interpretation. These factors include restrictions on word order (only VS), intonational patterns (either fall-rise or high rise), and kind of predicates (individual-level, gradable, negative predicates). In addition, the speaker encodes that s/he has only indirect evidence, but the context of utterance makes it clear that this is not so. Given these conditions, mirative uses are essentially rhetorical questions. From this perspective, the Spanish mirative future reproduces a consistent pattern across languages: mirative interpretations are obtained when indirect or inferential evidential markers are used in contexts where the speaker has direct experience of the facts.

Prinsip Kerja Sama Grice dalam Novel "Raumanen" Karya Marianne Katoppo

Artikel ini akan mendeskripsikan prinsip kerja sama yang dicetuskan oleh Grice dalam novel “Raumanen” karya Marianne Katoppo serta pelanggaran prinsip kerja sama yang dilakukan oleh tokoh-tokoh dalam novel. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian adalah metode kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat pematuhan dan pelanggaran prinsip kerja sama Grice yang dilakukan oleh tokoh-tokoh dalam novel. Pematuhan terhadap prinsip kerja sama menandakan bahwa para tokoh memahami konteks pertuturan sehingga mereka memberikan kontribusi yang baik pada saat proses komunikasi berlangsung. Sementara itu, pelanggaran prinsip kerja sama merupakan hal yang paling banyak dilakukan oleh para tokoh. Hal ini disebabkan ada maksud dan tujuan yang ingin dicapai. Peneliti menemukan maksud-maksud pelanggaran tersebut, yaitu ingin memberi peringatan, meminta penjelasan, menciptakan humor, memberi penjelasan, sopan santun, menyembunyikan suatu hal, mengungkapkan suatu hal, dan mencari-cari alasan.Katakunci: kerja sama, maksim, novel, pematuhan, pelanggaran Abstract:This study aims to describe the cooperative principles by Grice in novel Raumanen by Marianne Katoppo and violations of the cooperative principle performed by the characters in the novel. The research method used qualitative. The results of the study showed that there were implementation and violations of the Grice cooperative principle performed by the characters in the novel. Following cooperative principle indicated that the characters understood the context of utterance so they gave appropriate contribution during the communication. Meanwhile, the violation of cooperative principles was the most commonly performed by the characters. This was because there were intention and objective to achieve. The researcher found the intentions of the violation to give a warning, ask for explanation, create humor, give explanation, politeness, hide something, express something, and look for reasonsKeyword: cooperation, maxim, novel, violation

Predicates of personal taste: empirical data

According to contextualism, the extension of claims of personal taste is dependent on the context of utterance. According to truth relativism, their extension depends on the context of assessment. On this view, when the taste preferences of a speaker change, so does the truth value of a previously uttered taste claim, and the speaker might be required to retract it. Both views make strong empirical assumptions, which are here put to the test in three experiments with over 740 participants. It turns out that the linguistic behaviour of ordinary English speakers is consistent with contextualist predictions and inconsistent with the predictions of the most widely discussed form of truth relativism advocated by John MacFarlane.

No matter who: What makes one a relativist?

As part of her argument that relativism and contextualism are nothing but notational variants of each other, Stojanovic holds that contextualism is flexible enough to achieve whatever relativism might do if the matter is what truth-value is assigned to each pair of sentence and context. In this paper, I reply to this statement by arguing that contextualism cannot be made as flexible as relativism without in fact turning it into a version of relativism. The key to my response to Stojanovic is that, while relativism relativizes utterance truth, contextualism does not, so parameters that are not fixed at the context of utterance will be accessible for the relativist, but not for the contextualist. Although the relativity of utterance truth follows as soon as propositional truth is relativized to contexts of assessment, as the relativist does, it is easy to lose sight of this fact if we identify the context of assessment with the assessor’s context. Hence, the point of this paper is that the difference between relativism and contextualism is not one as to whose parameters play a role in determining the sentence’s truth-value. If it were, contextualism could indeed be made just as flexible as relativism.

COMMUNICATIVE-PRAGMATIC POTENTIAL OF THE MEANS OF EXPRESSION OF FUTURAL MEANING IN PUBLICISTIC DISCOURSE OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE

Background. The article under consideration focuses on the comprehensive research of CF,integrating stylistic, lexico-grammatical and communicative contexts of its realization in publicisticdiscourse of the French language. The purpose of the study is to investigate the stylistic and communicative peculiarities ofthe publicistic type of discourse, research the discourse differences between publicistic and literarytypes of discourse, define the types of futural semantics in publicistic type of discourse in theFrench language and specify their communicative potential. Methods of the research. The article under discussion applies comprehensive approach toCF research: interpretation procedure to differentiate modus components and separate modalmeanings of CF, method of semantic generalization to study the CF tense forms usage, thediscourse analysis operations to discover the remote structure with futural meaning, contextual andfunctional-stylistic analyses to discover CF semantics in separate microcontexts. Results of the investigation. The notions of strategy and tactics of language communication,overall context of utterance and speaker’s communicative aim producing, realized within a singlecommunicative act, are the foundation of the communicative-pragmatic analysis of the types ofdiscourse, implementing CF. Publicistic discourse is regarded as a certain type of discourse, as acorrelate of publicistic style. The communicative-pragmatic effect realization in a certain type ofdiscourse may involve the combination of semantic-stylistic and contextological analysis of theutterance. The analysis of the factual material proves that predictive publicism makes a significantpart of CF rate of usage. Discussion. It has been found out that publicistic discourse feeds into existential discoursebasic model. Its essence is in semiotization of the future reality in the long term or near-termperspective. The comparison of the tenses usage in publicistic and literary texts has demonstratedthe difference in their temporal structure – publicistic style, as opposed to literary style, ischaracteristic of preservation of frequency of the timeframe. Publicistic style, as well as literarystyle, contains futural contexts, which include integrative combinations of the verbs of movement,semantics of verbs, conveying different types of aspectual situations and grammar means.Publicistic type of discourse of the French language contains all four moods of French, able torealize two major forms of futural semantics – “future prediction” and “volitive future”. Prospectsof the future investigations lie in the study of CF expression in different types of language acts suchas: emotional-evaluative, declarative, directive, commissive, representative, in particular, wishes,permissions, demands, hints. Moreover, it seems highly potential to research CF in different typesof discourse, namely, in esoteric, culinary, advertese, intensional, etc.

Meaning Component Analysis of Euphemism and Dysphemism in Indonesian Da’wah

The objective of this research is to describe the forms of euphemism and dysphemism in Indonesian da’wah. The data were in the form of preachers' utterances containing expressions of euphemism and dysphemism. The data involved the context of utterance containing expressions of euphemism and dysphemism. The data were collected from audio documentation on the internet, namely Spotify. In providing data, the researcher used simak (observation) method with documentation and note-taking techniques. In analyzing the data, the researcher used agih method with BUL technique. Furthermore, the data analysis technique used was the substitution or replacement technique and the meaning component analysis. The meaning component analysis was performed to analyze euphemism or dysphemism utterances by showing the components that make up the meaning of utterance and comparing them with the components that make up meaning of neutral utterance. From the research results, it can be seen that euphemism and dysphemism were found in the form of words, phrases, and sentences.

Contextualism

Although consequentialism is not fundamentally concerned with such staples of moral theory as rightness, duty, obligation, goodness of actions, and harm, such notions may nonetheless be of practical significance. A contextualist approach to all these notions makes room for them in ordinary moral discourse, but also illustrates why there is no room for them at the level of fundamental moral theory. Roughly, to say that an act is right is to say that it is at least as good as the appropriate alternative, to say an act is good is to say that it is better than the appropriate alternative, to say an act harms someone is to say that it makes them worse off than they would have been on the appropriate alternative. In each case, “appropriate” is an indexical, whose referent is fixed by the context of utterance. This approach also makes room for an account of supererogation.

An Argument for the Obstinate Rigidity of Proper Names

A recent argument suggests that proper names are persistently rigid designators. Invoking the Kaplanian distinction between a world of the context of utterance and a world of the circumstance of evaluation, the argument maintains that names have to designate something only in the former, but not in the latter, implying thus that the designated objects must exist only in the former world. This paper shows that names designate something in both kinds of world and are thus obstinately rigid. This is achieved in three steps. First, the author argues that the contents of names must be available in possible worlds regardless of whether the named objects exist in them. Second, the author argues that these contents are expressed by English names in both kinds of world. Third, since Millianism suggests that names express contents by way of designating objects, the author argues that they have to designate something in both kinds of world.

AN ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACT CLASSIFICATION IN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Pragmatics is study of significance aspects and language use which are dependent to the speaker, the addressee and other characteristics about the context of utterance. Along with communication, we are as humans do it as speakers who deliver utterance or anything to the addressee. Therefore communication and language are related to another one with pragmatics. Usually people utilize language in spoken and written, for instance conversation writing ideas, thoughts and so on in the book. For example cerebration contained in fairy tale stories were poured through the writer that one may be understood by readers. These ideas are expressed in the form about speech acts as described in Yule's theory in his book Pragmatics: Speech Act Classification (1996), there are five classifications of speech act pragmatically that can be proposed with a speaker such as representatives, directives, commissives, expressives, and declarations. The researchers used Beauty and the Beast short story to be analyzed classification about speech act. The method used in this analysis is a descriptive qualitative method. The results in this study, there are 10 speech act in short story Beauty and the Beast. In the outcomes of this study, that speech act classified into 4 types. Speech act classification is mostly Directives (50%); Representatives (30%); Declarations (10%); and Commissives (10%). The classification type unfound in the story above is Expressives.