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Mandy Simons
2017
2017
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Simons, M. (2017). Response to commentaries on "Local Pragmatics in a Gricean Framework" https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2017.1281205
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Simons, Mandy. “Response to Commentaries on &Quot;Local Pragmatics in a Gricean Framework&Quot;” (2017).
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Simons, Mandy. Response to Commentaries on &Quot;Local Pragmatics in a Gricean Framework&Quot; 2017, doi:10.1080/0020174X.2017.1281205.
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@article{mandy2017a,
title = {Response to commentaries on "Local Pragmatics in a Gricean Framework"},
year = {2017},
doi = {10.1080/0020174X.2017.1281205},
author = {Simons, Mandy}
}
A response to commentaries from Francois Recanati, Emma Borg and Robyn Carston, published as part of a symposium volume on "Local Pragmatics in a Gricean Framework"
Abstract
There are two central themes that occupy the commentaries, and hence this response. The first is the character and role of what is said, both according to my account, and in pragmatic theory in general. In response, I lay out in more detail the proposal from my original paper that the starting point for Gricean reasoning should be not what is said, but the pragmatically uncommitted what is expressed. As part of this argument, I restate and provide further arguments for my claim that global and local pragmatic effects are continuous. The second central theme of the commentaries concerns the value of a Gricean account, which is not intended to model the psychological processes of interpretation. I respond to this concern in Section 5, ‘Pragmatics, psychology and processing’.