Between Relativism and Absolutism: Towards an Emergentist Definition of Meaning Potential

Lähteenmäki, Mika

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“…Muka_ovsk_ 1977(e.g. Muka_ovsk_ [1940Rommetveit, 1974;Marková, 1992;Linell, 1998;Lähteenmäki, 2004). Nonetheless, for most of these scholars too, proposals regarding semantic potentialities have remained rather abstract and empirically unsubstantiated.…”

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Meaning potentials and the interaction between lexis and contexts

Norén¹,

Linell²

2022

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This article is a contribution to a theory of lexical semantics and situated sense-making which aims at explaining how meaning is constituted in and across contexts, in a dialogical interplay between lexical resources and aspects of situations.We propose that the semantics of words or grammatical constructions are not just abstract schemas, to be filled in by pragmatic enrichment in situated uses. Furthermore, words are not associated with simple lists of different usages. Instead, we propose a theory of meaning potentials. The basic assumptions of such a theory are that linguistic resources provide language users with semantic resources to understand, say and mean specific things in particular usage events, and that this always involves an interplay with contextual factors.The study reported here is an exercise in empirical pragmatics, using authentic data from language use. We explore the meaning potential of the Swedish adjective ny 'new' by examining its interplay with a specific grammatical construction, x-och-x ('x-and-x': in English roughly 'x, it depends on what you mean by x'). X-och-x is a conventionalised and (largely) conversational practice, by which language users activate and negotiate parts of the meaning potential of a word x, such as ny, in order to establish a local situated meaning of it. In doing so, they exploit their knowledge of what x can mean, performing what can be seen as users´ semantic analyses in authentic communicative interaction.Our study can also be read as a contribution to Construction Grammar, attempting to develop a more dynamic, interactional interpretation of this theory than has previously been put forward in the literature.

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Meaning potentials and the interaction between lexis and contexts

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Linell²

2022

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“…More recently, other authors, also intrigued by the connection between Wittgenstein and Bakhtin, have done a more thorough work in articulating their language philosophies. In this direction, Mika Lähteenmäki, in a 2004 article, will mobilize the philosophy of language in Philosophical Investigations and articulate it to the dialogical notion of Bakhtinian meaning to think about the concept of "meaning potential" (Lähteenmäki, 2004). In a very recent article, Ken Hirschkop will also compare the language philosophies of these two thinkers and suggest that there would be, in addition to their similarities on a technical-conceptual level, a deep ethical affinity; both philosophies stand against pride and presumption (Hirschkop, 2019).…”

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The Intersubjective Nature of Meaning in Bakhtin and Wittgenstein

Gonçalves

2022

Bakhtiniana, Rev. Estud. Discurso

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This article aims at comparing the philosophies of language of Bakhtin and Wittgenstein. The main problem to be addressed is how these two authors thought the idea that linguistic meaning necessarily has an intersubjective nature. To this end, the article will address the Wittgensteinian “private language argument,” as discussed in Philosophical Investigations, particularly in §258, and the Bakhtinian thesis of the “dialogical orientation of discourse,” as discussed at the beginning of chapter 2 of Discourse in the Novel.

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“…Nessa direção, Mika Lähteenmäki, em artigo de 2004, vai mobilizar a filosofia da linguagem das Investigações Filosóficas e articulá-la à noção dialógica de significado bakhtiniana para pensar o conceito de "potencial de significado" (LÄHTEENMÄKI, 2004). Em artigo ainda mais recente, Ken Hirschkop também vai colocar as filosofias da linguagem desses dois pensadores em paralelo e vai propor que haveria, para além de suas semelhanças num plano técnico-conceitual, uma afinidade ética de fundo, ambas filosofias estariam orientadas contra o orgulho e a presunção (HIRSCHKOP, 2019).…”

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A natureza intersubjetiva do significado em Bakhtin e Wittgenstein

Gonçalves

2022

Bakhtiniana, Rev. Estud. Discurso

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RESUMO Esse artigo propõe fazer uma comparação entre as filosofias da linguagem de Bakhtin e de Wittgenstein. Em particular, nos interessará a pergunta sobre como esses dois filósofos pensaram a ideia de que o significado linguístico tem necessariamente uma natureza intersubjetiva. Para isso, serão abordados o argumento wittgensteiniano contra a linguagem privada, como discutido nasInvestigações filosóficas, em particular em §258, e a tese bakhtiniana da orientação dialógica do discurso, como discutida no início do capítulo 2 d’O discurso no romance.

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Between Relativism and Absolutism: Towards an Emergentist Definition of Meaning Potential

Cited by 6 publications

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Meaning potentials and the interaction between lexis and contexts

Meaning potentials and the interaction between lexis and contexts

The Intersubjective Nature of Meaning in Bakhtin and Wittgenstein

A natureza intersubjetiva do significado em Bakhtin e Wittgenstein

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