TY - JOUR
T1 - What is a theory of use?
AU - Kasher, Asa
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During the early 1950's, a couple of years after Strawson had launched his pragmatic blows against Russell's semantics, and a few years before Austin came to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to show how to do thingz with words, Ba :-Hiiiel published in Mind his paper entitled 'Indexical expressions', thus adding to the pragmatic studies of presuppositions and speech-acts a third pillar, viz. "the investigation c.f indexical languages and the erection of indexit:al lan~age-systems" (Bar-Hillel 1954; 1970: 78). As a matter of fact, none of t,~.se pillars of pragmatics of natural lan-gu:~ges is of a pure, constitution, and telling the se ,antic parts - be they in the * This paper is a revised version of a paper presented at the Bar-Hillel memorial conferance in Jerusalem ha April 1976. The wack was partly supported by the 'Nederlandse Organisatie voo~ Zu:\[ver-wvten~chappet~jkO nderzoek' (ZWO), Grant B30-6~.
PY - 1977/6
Y1 - 1977/6
N2 - The purpose of the present paper is to outline new goals for pragmatical theory, to present some problems of pragmatical studies and to propose some ingredients of major solutions of these problems. The goal of pragmatics is argued to be specification and explanation of the human competence to use linguistic means for effecting standard purposes, where a competence is defined by a constitutive system of rules. Adequacy Conditions for such pragmatic theories are pointed out, one of which being a pragmatic counterpart of the Tarski-Davidson Convention T for semantic theories. The key concepts in our criterion are linguistic appropriateness and linguistic institutions. The latter are defined by some constitutive factors, such as purposes and products. It is shown how Grice's theory of implicatures, Hintikka's language-games and the author's previous works on different pragmatic phenomena fit into the suggested framework.
AB - The purpose of the present paper is to outline new goals for pragmatical theory, to present some problems of pragmatical studies and to propose some ingredients of major solutions of these problems. The goal of pragmatics is argued to be specification and explanation of the human competence to use linguistic means for effecting standard purposes, where a competence is defined by a constitutive system of rules. Adequacy Conditions for such pragmatic theories are pointed out, one of which being a pragmatic counterpart of the Tarski-Davidson Convention T for semantic theories. The key concepts in our criterion are linguistic appropriateness and linguistic institutions. The latter are defined by some constitutive factors, such as purposes and products. It is shown how Grice's theory of implicatures, Hintikka's language-games and the author's previous works on different pragmatic phenomena fit into the suggested framework.
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U2 - 10.1016/0378-2166(77)90010-8
DO - 10.1016/0378-2166(77)90010-8
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SN - 0378-2166
VL - 1
SP - 105
EP - 120
JO - Journal of Pragmatics
JF - Journal of Pragmatics
IS - 2
ER -