From a review of
"The Pragmatics of Propositional Attitude Reports"
ed. KM Jaszczolt. Current Research in the
Semantics/Pragmatics Interface IV. Oxford: Elsevier, 2000.
Rev. by E Garrett. LINGUIST 12.283,
"In ch. VII
title of essay?
A Bezuidenhout
affiliated to the Netherlands, I take?
endorses a relevance-theoretic approach, and
suggests that 'that'-clauses encode "procedural
information", i.e. instructions as to how the
expression
specifically the "that-clause", I understand. But should "believe" be
treated as dyadic, or tryadic?
is to be processed. She discusses the importance of
pragmatic concepts such as loosening,
is this related to OPACITY and non-substitutivity salva veritate (where
"veritas" should read "truth-conditions")?
enrichment,
semantic enrichment, I take, as introduced by Wilson/Sperber 1977 Pragmatics
Microfiche ("I believe she plays well" EXPL+> (explicates) "I believe she
believes the flute well).
and transfer,
of what into what?
and raises several interesting cases for discussion.
Please re-raise them here! It's one of my all time favourite topics, and I'm
not at all convinced my own Gricean approach to the matter (in his "Method
in Philosophical Psychology").
Best
JL
(Mr)
Bs.As.Argentina.
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