Why Philosophical Pragmatics Needs Clinical Pragmatics
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: This paper aims to show how clinical pragmatics (the study of pragmatic \ndeficits) can fruitfully inform the classical theoretical models proposed \nby philosophical pragmatics. In the first part of the paper I argue that \ntheories proposed in the domain of philosophical pragmatics, as those \nelaborated by Austin and Grice, are not plausible from a cognitive point \nof view and that for this reason they cannot be useful to understand \npragmatic deficits. In the second part, I show that Relevance Theory \novercomes this limitation (being consistent with the data about actual \nmind’s functioning), but I also argue that it offers a restricted view of \nhuman communication which has to be integrated with a model of \nlanguage use that takes into account a central pragmatic property: \ncoherence of discourse.
Author: Ines Adornetti
Institution: University of Rome Tor Vergata
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2507180454