Pragmatic enrichment: beyond Gricean rational reconstruction – a response to Mandy Simons. Issue 5 (4th July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Carston, Robyn
• Is Part Of: Inquiry. Volume 60:Issue 5(2017)
• Page Start: 517
• Page End: 538
• Publication Date: 2017-07-04
• Subjects: Local pragmatics -- global inference -- embedded pragmatic effects -- scalar implicatures -- Grice -- saying/implicating -- Relevance Theory; Philosophy -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; Philosophy -- Periodicals; Social Sciences -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; Philosophie -- Périodiques; Sciences sociales -- Philosophie -- Périodiques; 105
• DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2016.1246863
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0020-174X

Abstract

Abstract: It has been claimed that pragmatic effects that arise in embedded clauses pose a problem for the Gricean reasoning procedure. I maintain, however, that the real issue these phenomena raise for Grice, as he himself acknowledged, is their violation of his saying/implicating distinction. While these effects can be accounted for by Gricean reasoning, which Mandy Simons clearly demonstrates, there is no way round this latter problem other than a major revision of Grice's notion of 'saying' and hence of the saying/implicating distinction.