On an Alleged Connection Between Indirect Speech and the Theory of Meaning

Cappelen, Herman; Lepore, Ernie

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0017.1997.tb00075.x

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“…Direct quotations are treated as verbatim reproductions of the original utterance, and indirect quotations as reproductions of its content. (For discussion, see Cappelen & Lepore 1997a, 1997bDavidson 1968Davidson , 1979Noh 1998a;Saka 1998). This assumption is too strong.…”

Section: Resemblance In Linguistic Metarepresentationmentioning

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Metarepresentation in linguistic communication

Wilson

2012

Meaning and Relevance

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This paper is designed to illustrate and consider the relations between three types of metarepresentational ability used in verbal comprehension: the ability to metarepresent attributed thoughts, the ability to metarepresent attributed utterances, and the ability to metarepresent abstract, non-attributed representations (e.g. sentence types, utterance types, propositions). Aspects of these abilities have been separately considered in the literatures on "theory of mind", Gricean pragmatics and quotation. The aim of this paper is to show how the results of these separate strands of research might be integrated with an empirically plausible pragmatic theory. IntroductionSeveral strands of research on metarepresentation have a bearing on the study of linguistic communication. On the whole, there has been little interaction among them, and the possibility of integrating them with an empirically plausible pragmatic theory has not been much explored. This paper has two main aims: to illustrate the depth and variety of metarepresentational abilities deployed in linguistic communication, and to argue that a pragmatic account of these abilities can both benefit from and provide useful evidence for the study of more general metarepresentational abilities.A metarepresentation is a representation of a representation: a higher-order representation with a lower-order representation embedded within it. The different strands of research on metarepresentation that have a bearing on the study of linguistic communication vary in the type of metarepresentations involved and the use to which they are put. First, there is the philosophical and psychological literature on mindreading (or "theory of mind"), which deals with the ability to form thoughts about attributed thoughts

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Section: Resemblance In Linguistic Metarepresentationmentioning

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Metarepresentation in linguistic communication

Wilson

2012

Meaning and Relevance

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“…Retrospectively, he identified two features •''which I shall call respectively 'formality' and 'dictiveness', with • Q1 seemingly equally strong claims to provide for us a rationally reconstructed interpretation of the initially hazy feature of ''centrality''; the first is saliently present in cases ''in which the items or situations signified are picked out as such by their falling under the conventional meaning of the signifying expression rather than by some more informal or indirect relationship to the signifying expression''; the second, in ''those instances of signification in which what is signified either is, or forms part of, or is specially and appropriately connected with what the signifying expression (or its user) says as distinct from ² Notoriously, Cappelen and Lepore (1997) point out this fact. They go on to invoke it, in my view unconvincingly, to defend truth-conditional theories of meaning from standard (in my view, compelling) criticisms.…”

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Relativism, Vagueness and What is Said

García‐Carpintero¹

2008

Relative Truth

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John MacFarlane has formulated a version of truth-relativism, and has argued for its application in some cases — future contingents, knowledge attributions, and epistemic modals among them. Mark Richard also defends a version of relativism, which he applies to vagueness-inducing features of the semantics of gradable adjectives. On MacFarlane's and Richard's characterization, truth-relativist claims posit a distinctive kind of context-dependence, the dependence of the evaluation of an assertion as true or otherwise on aspects of the context of the evaluation itself — in contrast with the context of the assertion. This chapter follows Evans in distinguishing two forms of truth-relativism: a moderate one concerning the evaluation of contents or propositions, and a radical one concerning the evaluation of acts. It argues against Richard's truth-relativist proposals for gradable adjectives, which are understood to be of the second kind, while accepting a form of moderate content-relativism for those cases.

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“…The problems addressed here are reminiscent of the issue of mixed quotation, raised by Cappelen and Lepore (2007). For these authors, the most typical reasons for preferring mixed to direct or indirect quotation are that the reported utterance is too long to quote, but the reporter wants to ensure accuracy on certain key passages; certain passages were particularly well put; perhaps the words used by the original speaker were potentially offensive to an audience and the speaker wants to distance himself from them; the expression being 'mixed-quoted' is ungrammatical or contains a solecism for which the speaker does not feel responsible, etc.…”

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On the Social Practice of Indirect Reports

Capone

2016

Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy &Amp; Psychology

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This paper deals with the social practice of indirect reports and treats them as cases of language games. It proposes a number of principles like the following:Paraphrasis/Form Principle The that-clause embedded in the verb 'say' is a paraphrasis of what Y said, and meets the following constraints: should Y hear what X said he (Y) had said, he would not take issue with it, as to content, but would approve of it as a fair paraphrasis of his original utterance. Furthermore, he would not object to vocalizing the assertion made out of the words following the complementizer 'that' on account of its form/style. Furthermore, it connects such principles with Relevance Theory considerations. #

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On an Alleged Connection Between Indirect Speech and the Theory of Meaning

Cited by 43 publications

References 18 publications

Metarepresentation in linguistic communication

Metarepresentation in linguistic communication

Relativism, Vagueness and What is Said

On the Social Practice of Indirect Reports

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