Optimality-theoretic pragmatics

Blutner, Reinhard; Zeevat, Henk

doi:10.21248/zaspil.51.2009.372

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“…It should be emphasized that this tradition assumes that there is a clear distinction between semantics and pragmatics, i.e., between meanings within the linguistic system and meanings in use (Asher and Lascarides 2003;Blutner and Zeevat 2003, Horn and Ward 2004, Kadmon 2001Stalnaker 1999). According to the canonical analysis developed by Grice, every meaning which is communicated explicitly or implicitly is a fully determinate assumption for which the speaker is just as much responsible as if she had asserted it directly.…”

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On weak communication

Gil

2015

Intercultural Pragmatics

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Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson suggest that much of linguistic communication is weak because the hearer usually must take a great responsibility in the interpretation of the speaker’s utterance. Sometimes, the (very) “weak implicatures” supplied by the hearer are very different from (and even incompatible with) the speaker’s intention. Relevance Theory helps us to understand crucial aspects of weak communication. However, I aim at showing that pragmatic theory should reconsider the importance of intention in order to explain that, often, the hearer interprets certain meanings that are independent from (or even incompatible with) the speaker’s intention. Some types of inferences proposed by Mira Ariel, as well as unintended puns studied by Sydney Lamb and other stratificational linguists, help us to begin to show that it may be necessary to go beyond the concept of intention if we want to understand why and how human communication is weak.

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“…Uma das implicações em propor que as perspectivas do falante e do ouvinte devem ser levadas em conta é a visão da pragmática OT como parte de um programa de pesquisa de "naturalização da pragmática" que tem como foco prover uma visão realística cognitivamente (ou psicologicamente plausível) da produção e interpretação de proferimentos (BLUTNER; ZEEVAT, 2009), ou seja, a pragmática OT é uma teoria naturalística e deve propor análises explicativas, em oposição à teorias normativas que propõem análises prescritivas.…”

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“…Ainda que não tenhamos investigado a compreensão das implicaturas, acreditamos que esta tese pode integrar o rol de trabalhos que advogam pela adequação da otimização bidirecional, em seu sentido fraco, com relação à compreensão de implicaturas escalares, como é defendido em diversos trabalhos SPENADER, 2006;HENDRIKS et al, 2010;MOGNON et al, 2021;contra BLUTNER, 2000contra BLUTNER, , 2010contra BLUTNER, , 2017ZEEVAT, 2009). Vimos, nos capítulos 4 e 5, que a análise de Mognon et al (2021) para o "some" pode se aplicar para o "alguns" e para o "ou".…”

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“…Por consequência, sob essa visão, a Bi-OT seria responsável por determinar, pelo menos, parte dos pares de formasignificado numa dada língua.Para ilustrar o processo de fossilização, vamos recorrer à análise de Blutner(2017), que pode ser aplicada aos exemplos em (20), repetidos como (21) por conveniência:(21) a. Pedro derrubou o vaso. b. Pedro fez com que o vaso caísse.Em vez das restrições de marcação F e S, iremos recorrer a quatro restrições de associação (ou fidelidade) que conectam o nível da forma ao nível da interpretação, apresentadas em Blutner eZeevat (2009). Primeiro, temos duas restrições que não estabelecem dominância entre si.…”

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A assimetria entre a produção e compreensão infantil de itens escalares: uma análise unificada via Teoria da Otimidade

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When items such as "some" and "or" are uttered, the interlocutor can interpret them as the negation of another related item, namely "all" and "and", respectively. In such cases, it is deemed that the interpretation for "some" can be "some, but not all", while the reading for "or" would be "A or B, but not both". This particular usage of "or" is commonly referred to as "exclusive-or". Sentences containing "some" and "or" are considered subinformative when they describe a situation where "all" or "and" could have been uttered instead. Previous literature exploring children's comprehension of these subinformative uses has revealed that preschool-aged children, in contrast to adults, accept sentences with the equivalent of "some" to describe situations where "all" would be more appropriate (PAPAFRAGOU; TANTALOU, 2004; BALE et al., 2010). Similarly, they accept sentences with the equivalent of "or" to describe situations where "and" would be more fitting (TIEU et al., 2017;SKORDOS et al., 2020). Conversely, studies investigating the production of "some" and "or" by children acquiring English have reported that "some" is used to describe situations where the reading "some, but not all" is suitable, and they produce "exclusiveor" before the age of four (MORRIS, 2008;EITELJÖRGE;POUSCOULOUS;LIEVEN, 2018). This disparity between production and comprehension results suggests an asymmetry in child language, with production preceding comprehension. In this dissertation, it is argued that the framework of Optimality Theory (OT) can account for these asymmetries in child language.Considering these observations and the scarcity of studies examining the predictions of OT for semantic-pragmatic phenomena in the context of Brazilian Portuguese (BrP), this dissertation aims to investigate the linguistic behaviour of children acquiring BrP as their first language in the production of "ou" and "alguns." To this end, two corpora of child speech were analysed. The first corpus comprises approximately 119 hours of spontaneous speech recordings involving four children acquiring Brazilian Portuguese between the ages of 2;0 and 5;6, in addition to the speech of 53 adults with whom the children interacted (SANTANA-SANTOS corpus). The second corpus consists of approximately 51 hours of elicited speech recordings of narratives by seven children acquiring Brazilian Portuguese between the ages of 4;3 and 9;0, alongside the speech of five adults with whom the children interacted (AlegreLong corpus). Our findings corroborate the results of studies conducted in English. We observed that the first production of "ou-exclusivo" occurs at 2;4, while the first production of "alguns, mas não todos" takes place at 3;11. We extended the 13 analysis to encompass the production and comprehension proposed by Mognon et al. (2021) for "alguns" to "ou" and we also presented a novel analysis to describe the production and comprehension of "ou" in contexts where its exclusive reading is necessary. Within OT, the asymmetry between the production and comprehension o...

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Interpretation as Optimization: Constitutive material adjectives

Oliver

2014

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Optimality-theoretic pragmatics

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A assimetria entre a produção e compreensão infantil de itens escalares: uma análise unificada via Teoria da Otimidade

Interpretation as Optimization: Constitutive material adjectives

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