On the Nature of Presupposition: A Normative Speech Act Account

In this paper I provide a new account of linguistic presuppositions, on which they are ancillary speech acts defined by constitutive norms. After providing an initial intuitive characterization of the phenomenon, I present a normative speech act account of presupposition in parallel with Williamson&...

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Autor: García-Carpintero, Manuel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/123860
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/123860
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Filosofia del llenguatge
Actes de parla (Lingüística)
Semàntica (Filosofia)
Pressuposició (Lògica)
Philosophy of language
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Semantics (Philosophy)
Presupposition (Logic)
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Sumario:In this paper I provide a new account of linguistic presuppositions, on which they are ancillary speech acts defined by constitutive norms. After providing an initial intuitive characterization of the phenomenon, I present a normative speech act account of presupposition in parallel with Williamson's analogous account of assertion. I explain how it deals well with the problem of informative presuppositions, and how it relates to accounts for the Triggering and Projection Problems for presuppositions. I conclude with a brief discussion of the consequences of the proposal for the adequacy of Williamson's account of assertion.