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Discourse and pragmatics. A cognitive perspective
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Lengua, traducción, recepción: en honor de Julio César Santoyo=Languaje, translation, reception: to honor Julio César Santoyo/editoras, Rosa Rabadán, Trinidad Guzmán y Marisa Fernández
Editorial
León: Universidad de León, Área de Publicaciones, 2010
Fecha
2010-03-05
Resumen
This paper is concerned with the connections between semantics,
pragmatics, and discourse. The underlying assumption for this enterprise
is the belief that an explanatorily adequate account of discourse
processes cannot be independent of semantics and pragmatics. The paper
adopts a maximalist view of semantics in which the meaning of
sentences is seen as a result of complex patterns of interaction between
different cognitive models (Lakoff, 1987). These include propositional
models, metaphor, metonymy, and image-schemas. The maximalist
approach to semantics is combined with a broad view of inferential
pragmatics according to which meaning derivation is regulated
by the presumption of optimal relevance, i.e. the speaker's presumed
desire to achieve the maximum number of meaning effects for the
least processing effort (Sperber and Wilson 1995). Cognitive model
theory attempts to capture all the richness of semantic characterisations.
This endows the theory with a huge potential to account for inferential
activity and the ability of people to create conceptually connected
texts. Inferential pragmatics contains all the criteria necessary
to explain how semantic descriptions are used strategically to create
text. Text is the result of adequate balancing explicit and implicit information
on the basis of relevance. This is done through what we
may call cued inferencing, i.e. making inferences on the basis of
prompts provided by linguistic expressions (usually underspecified
semantic representations) in connection to a context.
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