Pragmatic enrichment as coherence raising

• Autores: Peter Pagin
• Localización: Philosophical Studies, ISSN-e 1573-0883, Vol. 168, Nº. 1, 2014, págs. 59-100
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • This paper concerns the phenomenon of pragmatic enrichment, and has a proposal for predicting the occurrence of such enrichments. The idea is that an enrichment of an expressed content c occurs as a means of strengthening the coherence between c and a salient given content c� of the context, whether c� is given in discourse, as sentence parts, or through perception. After enrichment, a stronger coherence relation is instantiated than before enrichment. An idea of a strength scale of types of coherence relations is proposed and applied.