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How Do We Know that What We Mean is Understood? Hypothesis and Warranty of Uptake in ConversationIn Herman Parret (ed.), Pretending to Communicate, De Gruyter. pp. 33-48. 1994.
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25Why truth matters : When relevance meets truthfulnessPragmatics Cognition 28 (2): 416-440. 2021.This article is about truth and relevance. It first discusses the concept of truth in formal semantics and pragmatics, mainly the Gricean, neo-Gricean and post-Gricean approaches to meaning. What is particularly crucial is the relationship between pragmatic meaning and truth, since, from a Gricean perspective, meaning is defined as non-truth-conditional, which in turn raises the question of how truth can be a pragmatic issue. A second issue is the relationship between truth and relevance, as dev…Read more
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33Why truth mattersPragmatics and Cognition 28 (2): 416-440. 2021.This article is about truth and relevance. It first discusses the concept of truth in formal semantics and pragmatics, mainly the Gricean, neo-Gricean and post-Gricean approaches to meaning. What is particularly crucial is the relationship between pragmatic meaning and truth, since, from a Gricean perspective, meaning is defined as non-truth-conditional, which in turn raises the question of how truth can be a pragmatic issue. A second issue is the relationship between truth and relevance, as dev…Read more
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5L’implicite et l’interface sémantique-pragmatique : où passe la frontière?1Corela. Cognition, Représentation, Langage. 2018.
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What Is the Contribution of Connectives to Discourse Meaning? The With or Without IssueIn Sarah Bigi & Fabrizio Macagno (eds.), Argumentation and Language — Linguistic, Cognitive and Discursive Explorations, Springer Verlag. 2018.
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12ImplicaturesCambridge University Press. 2019.An accessible and thorough introduction to implicatures, a key topic in all frameworks of pragmatics. Starting with a definition of the various types of implicatures in Gricean, neo-Gricean and post-Gricean pragmatics, the book covers many important questions for current pragmatic theories, namely: the distinction between explicit and implicit forms of pragmatic enrichment, the criteria for drawing a line between semantic and pragmatic meaning, the relations between the structure of language and…Read more
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16L’implicite et l’interface sémantique-pragmatique : où passe la frontière?Corela. Cognition, Représentation, Langage (HS). 2018.La question de l’interface sémantique-pragmatique est apparue dès le début du tournant gricéen, fondé sur les concepts de signification non naturelle et d’implicature. La question cruciale est devenue celle des critères permettant de définir la signification linguistique et le sens intentionné du locuteur. Dans cet article, nous montrerons quels sont les arguments empiriques qui illustrent la complexité de l’interface sémantique-pragmatique, comme les implicatures conversationnelles généralisées…Read more
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33Pragmatic connectives, argumentative coherence and relevanceArgumentation 3 (3): 321-339. 1989.This article is concerned with pragmatic connectives and their uses in discursive argumentation. Three approaches to pragmatic connectives will be presented: (1) argumentation theory, which implies a conception of pragmatics integrated within semantics, and a specific type of argumentative rules, called ‘topoi’; (2) discourse structure theory, which associates a function in the structuring of discourse sequences to pragmatic connectives; (3) relevance theory, which constitutes a cognitive pragma…Read more
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20The pragmatic aspects of linguistic negation: Speech act, argumentation and pragmatic inferenceArgumentation 6 (1): 51-76. 1992.This paper is an attempt to give a general explanation of pragmatic aspects of linguistic negation. After a brief survey of classical accounts of negation within pragmatic theories , the main pragmatic uses of negation are discussed within relevance theory. The question of the relevance of negative utterance is raised, and a general inferential schema is proposed and tested for the main uses of negation discussed in the paper
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Contribution linguistique à une sémiologie du cinémaUniversité de Neuchâtel, Centre de Recherches Sémiologiques]. 1977.
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University of GenevaRegular Faculty
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |