TY - JOUR
T1 - On Pragmatic Demarcation Of Language
AU - Kasher, Asa
N1 - Funding Information:
Thanks are expressed to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for partial support through a grant to the Ruhr Universität, Bochum, and to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities for partial support through a grant on Natural Logic and Pragmatics. I am grateful to Leo Apostel, Dirk Batens, L. Jonathan Cohen, David Lewis, Ruth Manor, Barbara Partee, Dov Samet, Helmut Schnelle, Fernand Vandamme, and Dieter Wunderlich for comments on earlier presentations of the present paper. William of Sherwood (1966: 21). This holds, I am told, in the British Parliament.
PY - 1978
Y1 - 1978
N2 - The present paper shows that if an adequate distinction can be drawn in pragmatics between linguistic and non-linguistic institutions (systems of rules, speech acts), then an adequate distinction between analytic and synthetic sentences is possible in semantics. The demonstration rests on several assumptions concerning the nature of pragmatics and plausible adequacy conditions for analyticity definitions. The concept of extremity is introduced and plays a central role in the argument.
AB - The present paper shows that if an adequate distinction can be drawn in pragmatics between linguistic and non-linguistic institutions (systems of rules, speech acts), then an adequate distinction between analytic and synthetic sentences is possible in semantics. The demonstration rests on several assumptions concerning the nature of pragmatics and plausible adequacy conditions for analyticity definitions. The concept of extremity is introduced and plays a central role in the argument.
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U2 - 10.1515/thli.1978.5.1-3.251
DO - 10.1515/thli.1978.5.1-3.251
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AN - SCOPUS:84942496061
SN - 0301-4428
VL - 5
SP - 251
EP - 260
JO - Theoretical Linguistics
JF - Theoretical Linguistics
IS - 1-3
ER -