Semantic Structure and Illocutionary Force

Bierwisch, Manfred

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“…Pragmatics cannot be identified with the study of verbal communication exclusively. Bierwisch (1980; also comes to the same conclusion but from a different starting point: he sharply criticizes speech act theory because of the identification of language use and communication and he emphasizes that the use of language to communicate is not the unique form of language use. There are several other kinds of language use such as the use of language to think, to memorize or to learn; the use of language in taking notes, in playing, in singing for fun or in psycholinguistic experiments, etc.…”

Section: Pragmatic Competence and Communicative Language Usementioning

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The principles of communicative language use

Németh¹

2004

Acta Linguistica Hungarica

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The paper aims to overview some typical principles of communicative language use in a cognitive pragmatic approach applying a reductionist method in order to demonstrate that the well-known principles can be reduced to a very general rationality (economy) principle. After briefly reviewing the principles the paper re-evaluates them and provides a new classification of them relying on the definition of ostensive-inferential communication. The principles which can be divided into rationality and interpersonality principles are really principles of effective information transmission on objects and selves. They refer to two kinds of language use: informative and communicative ones. The only principles valid for only communicative language use are the communicative principle of relevance and the principle of communicative intention suggested in the present article. Finally, the paper reduces all rationality and interpersonality principles to a very general rationality principle, i.e., the cognitive principle of relevance.1. Introduction AimsThe present paper aims to explore some of the typical principles of communicative language use. As a starting-point for the investigation, I will define communicative language use within the scope of pragmatic competence. Then I will give a brief overview of the possibilities raised in the linguistics literature of how to interpret the term principle, as well as select the relevant interpretations fitting in with the aims of this paper. After completing these tasks, I will have three main goals: (i) to choose, briefly characterize and evaluate some typical communicative principles treated by the pragmatics literature; (ii) to re-evaluate the chosen principles and provide a new classification of them relying on the definition of ostensive-inferential communication, and (iii) to demonstrate that all * The research reported here was partly supported by the Bolyai János Research Grant. I would like to thank Károly Bibok and the anonymous reviewers of the earlier version of the present paper for their helpful critical comments and suggestions which have helped me to clarify some points. All remaining shortcomings are, of course, my own responsibility.

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Section: Pragmatic Competence and Communicative Language Usementioning

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The principles of communicative language use

Németh¹

2004

Acta Linguistica Hungarica

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“…This position has been upheld in various ways since Austin (1962)-see Lemmon (1962), Hedenius (1963), Bach and Harnish (1979), Ginet (1979), Bierwisch (1980), Leech (1983) and recently Condoravdi and Lauer (2011). In light of this reasoning, performative sentences are not to be equated with the TAM clause discussed in the previous section, but rather embedded within the latter as in (13), where the subject (i.e., the speaker) commits to the truth of the assertion.…”

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The Assertive Clause Hypothesis, Performative Sentences and the Adjacency Condition on Question Tags

Achiri–Taboh¹

2016

IJEL

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This article is a continuation of my recent work (Achiri-Taboh, 2015) in which I have examined isn't it? as a generalized invariant tag (GIT) used throughout the inflectional paradigm of question tags appended to declarative anchor clauses in different spoken varieties of English around the world. In that work, it is argued from a generative point of view that the source of the GIT is a truncated assertive matrix (TAM) clause in which the actually uttered anchor clause is embedded. In the present study, I explore this Assertive Clause Hypothesis (ACH) in two main ways. First, I look at the implication of the TAM clause for another such matrix clause, namely, the performative matrix clause of John Austin (1962) that has been explored within the framework of Generative Semantics initiated by John Ross in (1970). Then, to further show how the GIT actually connects with the TAM clause, the Adjacency Condition on Question Tags (ACQT) is established with the implication that restrictive tags, as opposed to the GIT, cannot be appended to a compound declarative with the view of questioning the holistic idea asserted in the latter.

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“…So hört man beispielsweise in französischen Nachrichtensendungen nicht nur Plus grave, ... und Pire t ..., sondern auch Plus grave encore,... und Pire encore,...; und das -Appositiv Circonstance aggravante, . Bierwisch 1979Bierwisch , 1980Borst/Motsch 1986: 168-173). Der Sinn des deutschen Ausgangstextes bleibt*nur.…”

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Semantic Structure and Illocutionary Force

Cited by 102 publications

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The principles of communicative language use

The principles of communicative language use

The Assertive Clause Hypothesis, Performative Sentences and the Adjacency Condition on Question Tags

Erschwerend kommt hinzu, daß ... Zur Übersetzung eines mikrosyntaktischen Gliederungssignals

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