Sztencel, Magdalena (2014) Conditionality in individual minds: An argument for a wholly pragmatic approach to utterance interpretation. Lingua, 152. pp. 81-97.
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Abstract
There is a growing body of research which undermines the traditional dual-processing model of utterance interpretation, whereby pragmatic inference is preceded by the context-independent process of linguistic decoding. This body of research suggests that utterance interpretation is a wholly pragmatic inferential process. In this paper, I seek to defend a wholly pragmatic approach by investigating the role of the purported process of context-independent decoding and the process of pragmatic inference in determining when a conditional is false. I show that material conditionality, like all kinds of conditionality, lies in pragmatically derived holistic thought, i.e. not in any putative linguistic semantics.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Status: | Published |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.lingua.2014.09.012 |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| School/Department: | School of Education, Language and Psychology |
| URI: | https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/1053 |
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