Sneaky Assertions

García‐Carpintero, Manuel

doi:10.1111/phpe.12116

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“…To be clear, I am not claiming that direct communication does not depend on some degree of interpretative cooperation and charity. After all, there is still a lot of contextual disambiguation and pragmatic interpretation going on even when we say things explicitly in accordance with conventional meanings (Peet 2015;García-Carpintero 2019;Boogart, Jansen and van Leeuwen 2021;Camp 2022). However, the possibility of misinterpretation is far more restricted here than in indirect forms of communication involving implicatures or non-literal language.…”

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“…I will leave open the possibility that we can make indirect assertions, that is assertions made using sentences non conventionally. I will follow García-Carpintero (2019) in considering that a speech act is made indirectly if, and only if it is performed using a sentence that, by default, in central cases (and according to its conventional meaning and mood) is used to perform a different speech act. So, an assertion of p is indirect when it is not made by uttering the type of declarative sentence that by default, in central contexts, is used to express such a proposition in accordance with its conventional meaning.…”

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No norm for (off the record) implicatures

Salas

2023

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It is widely held that there is a distinctive norm of assertion. A plausible idea is that there is an analogous, perhaps weaker, norm for indirect communication via implicatures. I argue against this type of proposal. My claim is that the norm of assertion is a social norm governing public updates to the conversational record. Off the record implicatures are not subject to social norms of this type. I grant that, as happens in general with intentional actions, off the record communicative acts may be subject to normative assessments on different levels (for instance, regarding their moral or prudential appropriateness). However, such assessments do not generate distinctive norms that apply to all cases of implicature.

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No norm for (off the record) implicatures

Salas

2023

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“…16 Among the theorists who have argued for the possibility of indirect assertion are Bach and Harnish (1979, 70 ff. ), Viebahn (2017) and García-Carpintero (2018). Now, one might think that if indirect assertion is possible in linguistic communication, the same should hold for pictorial communication.…”

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Truth and directness in pictorial assertion

Lewerentz

Viebahn

2023

Linguist and Philos

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This paper develops an account of accuracy and truth in pictorial assertion. It argues that there are two ways in which pictorial assertions can be indirect: with respect to their content and with respect to their target. This twofold indirectness explains how accurate, unedited pictures can be used to make false pictorial assertions. It captures the fishiness of true pictorial assertions involving target-indirectness, such as true pictorial assertions involving outdated pictures. And it raises the question whether target-indirectness may also arise in linguistic assertion.

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“…footnote 15.24 See;;Viebahn (2020); and van Elswyk (2020); cf Sternau et al (2015). andGarcía-Carpintero (2018).…”

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Norms of Constatives

Gaszczyk

2022

Acta Anal

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According to the normative approach, speech acts are governed by certain norms. Interestingly, the same is true for classes of speech acts. This paper considers the normative treatment of constatives, consisting of such classes as assertives, predictives, suggestives, and more. The classical approach is to treat these classes of illocutions as species of constatives. Recently, however, Simion (Shifty Speech and Independent Thought: Epistemic Normativity in Context, Oxford University Press, 2021) has proposed that all constatives (i) are species of assertion, and (ii) are governed by the knowledge norm. I defend the classical treatment of constatives and show that Simion’s conclusion is untenable. No taxonomy of speech acts can accommodate such a view. More importantly, we can test whether a particular speech act is an assertion or not. I propose five tests of assertion, the passing of which is a necessary condition for being an assertion. Some constative speech acts fail these tests. Thus, contrary to Simion, not all constatives can be regarded as species of assertion.

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Sneaky Assertions

Cited by 13 publications

References 84 publications

No norm for (off the record) implicatures

No norm for (off the record) implicatures

Truth and directness in pictorial assertion

Norms of Constatives

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