What properly belongs to grammar? A response to Lepore and Stone. Issue 2 (17th February 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bezuidenhout, Anne
• Is Part Of: Inquiry. Volume 59:Issue 2(2016)
• Page Start: 175
• Page End: 194
• Publication Date: 2016-02-17
• Subjects: Philosophy -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; Philosophy -- Periodicals; Social Sciences -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; Philosophie -- Périodiques; Sciences sociales -- Philosophie -- Périodiques; 105
• DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2015.1125132
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0020-174X

Abstract

Abstract: Lepore and Stone devote Part I of their book to setting out a number of views that act as foils for their own positive 'disambiguation' view of interpretation developed in Part II. They divide their opposition into three camps: The Gricean rationalists, the neo-Gricean lexicalists, and the empirical psychologists. I try to show why a 'disambiguation' view of such phenomena is unappealing and why Relevance Theory provides a better account of these phenomena. I end with some brief remarks about what all of this tells us about the interface between semantics and pragmatics.