Metalinguistic denial and its felicity conditions
| dc.contributor.advisor | Davies, Alexander Stewart, juhendaja | |
| dc.contributor.author | Celli, Gabriele | |
| dc.contributor.other | Tartu Ülikool. Humanitaarteaduste ja kunstide valdkond | et |
| dc.contributor.other | Tartu Ülikool. Filosoofia osakond | et |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-27T20:24:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-06-27T20:24:35Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In the literature on denial, not much attention has been paid to metalinguistic denial, a speech act used to object to metalinguistic information in a conversation. The purposes of this paper are to describe the effects of a metalinguistic denial in a Stalnakerian framework of conversations and to determine the felicity conditions of metalinguistic denial. To fulfil the first purpose, I propose to represent in the framework used metalinguistic information as “metalinguistic propositions”. Each metalinguistic proposition encodes a criterion used to determine the meaning of an expression in a conversation. These are the entities a metalinguistic denial objects to. After introducing metalinguistic propositions, I model the effects of metalinguistic denial on a conversation. To fulfil the second purpose, we need to represent why, in some cases, a metalinguistic denial needs to be followed by an explanation to be felicitous. In order to do so, I argue we have to introduce propositions that speakers acknowledge as possible points of disagreement in the conversation. I call these propositions “contestable metalinguistic propositions”. I argue that if speakers cannot figure out which contestable metalinguistic propositions are being denied by a metalinguistic denial, an explanation has to follow the denial. | en |
| dc.description.uri | https://www.ester.ee/record=b5447843*est | et |
| dc.identifier.other | 20.03.01 CEL 01 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10062/72716 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | et |
| dc.publisher | Tartu Ülikool | et |
| dc.rights | openAccess | et |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
| dc.subject | philosophy | en |
| dc.subject | philosophy of language | en |
| dc.subject.other | magistritööd | et |
| dc.subject.other | filosoofia | et |
| dc.subject.other | keelefilosoofia | et |
| dc.title | Metalinguistic denial and its felicity conditions | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | et |