As is typical with "The Linguist", they have just distributed an alternative
review, this time by A. Bezuidenhout (LINGUIST 12.481), which is more
explicit as to the interface with RT.
Best,
JL.
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Bezuindenhout writes: "Recanati proposes a way of dealing with cases which
he calls strongly deviant non-cumulative echoes. The strongly deviant cases
can be handled by appeal to a deferential operator. Ultimately though
Recanati wants a unified account of all cases of mixed quotation (i.e., of
echoic uses inside the object-representation of a metarepresentation). He
finally offers an account of all such echoes (cumulative and non-cumulative,
strongly deviant and weakly deviant) in terms of a deferential operator
D x,m [S]
where 'S' is an expression of a language, 'x' the person to whom we defer
and 'm' is a way of using that expression. I will not summarize the
discussion here as it is rather intricate. It takes a detour through an
examination of the notion of deference, and of Sperber's notion of
"quasi-belief".".
"Refs. Sperber, D. (1975). Rethinking Symbolism. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. Sperber, D. & Wilson, D. (1986). Relevance: Communication
and Cognition. Oxford: Blackwell."
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