Organon F
Volume 31, August 2024, Issue 3, Pages 204–216
ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)
Research Article
Intentions, Commitments, and the Derivation of Implicatures
Matej Drobňák
In this paper, I focus on a common equivocality in how the content of conversational, especially scalar, implicatures is specified and I argue that there is a substantial difference between the belief specification BELS(¬ψ) (“The speaker believes that ¬ψ”) and the content specification ¬ψ. The main argument for taking the distinction between the specifications seriously is that, in most cases, both BELS(¬ψ) and ¬ψ can be derived as the implicatures of the same sentence but they have different consequences for how the hearer plans her future actions and manages expectations about the future actions of the speaker. As I argue further, the commitment-based approaches can provide an explanation of how the content specification is derived in contexts in which the speaker does not have beliefs required for the derivation of the belief specification and because of that they have an advantage over the standard Gricean approach.
Commitments; Gricean pragmatics; implicatures; intentions; social-normative pragmatics.
Author
Matej Drobňák
Affiliation
University of Hradec Králové
Address
Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, nám. Svobody 331/2, 500 02 Hradec Králové 2, Czechia
Received
8 April 2024
Accepted
30 June 2024
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Drobňák, M. (2024). Intentions, Commitments, and the Derivation of Implicatures. Organon F, 31(3), 204–216. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2024.31301
Chicago
Drobňák, Matej. 2024. "Intentions, Commitments, and the Derivation of Implicatures." Organon F 31 (3): 204–216. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2024.31301
Harvard
Drobňák, M. (2024). Intentions, Commitments, and the Derivation of Implicatures. Organon F, 31(3), pp. 204–216. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2024.31301
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