I argue that the contextualist account of the referential/attributive interpretation of definite descriptions, presented by Recanati and Bezuidehnout and based on the idea that definite descriptions are semantically underdetermined and in need of completion through optional top-down pragmatic processes, suffers from an explanatory gap. I defend the contextualist view but hold that the determination of the content of definite descriptions is a mandatory, linguistically driven process based on saturation rather than on optional pragmatic processes.
Referential/Attributive: The Explanatory Gap of the Contextualist Theory / M. Vignolo. - In: DIALECTICA. - ISSN 0012-2017. - STAMPA. - 66(2012), pp. 621-633.
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Titolo: | Referential/Attributive: The Explanatory Gap of the Contextualist Theory |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2012 |
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Citazione: | Referential/Attributive: The Explanatory Gap of the Contextualist Theory / M. Vignolo. - In: DIALECTICA. - ISSN 0012-2017. - STAMPA. - 66(2012), pp. 621-633. |
Abstract: | I argue that the contextualist account of the referential/attributive interpretation of definite descriptions, presented by Recanati and Bezuidehnout and based on the idea that definite descriptions are semantically underdetermined and in need of completion through optional top-down pragmatic processes, suffers from an explanatory gap. I defend the contextualist view but hold that the determination of the content of definite descriptions is a mandatory, linguistically driven process based on saturation rather than on optional pragmatic processes. |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11567/548421 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 01.01 - Articolo su rivista |