Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: In linguistics and philosophy, the division of labor in the study of language is commonly schematized by the basic triad that consists of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics each of which typically stands for complementary yet distinct aspects of the language- formal or natural- in question. These aspects, at face value, provide us a methodological convenience by schematically representing the structure of a language with respect to diverse linguistic roles and their explanatory significance. Although endorsing the basic triad offers some methodological convenience for the analysis of languages, the viability of the basic triad has, in recent years, been frequently challenged with the question of how to ground the distinction between semantics and pragmatics. Hence, it has become significant to answer the question of how far the semantics-pragmatics distinction in its connection with the basic triad is theoretically warranted considering the assumptions on which it rests. If the distinction cannot be grounded, it seems to have no substantial significance other than its methodological convenience as stipulative categories in a stipulative schema. In this paper, I discuss these underlying assumptions to the effect that the semantics-pragmatics distinction is a stipulative one rather than a well-grounded distinction
DOI: 10.21547/jss.736037
Author: Mustafa POLAT
Institution: Gaziantep University
Language: Turkish
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3047986900