Perspectives on the semantics/pragmatics debate: insights from aphasia research.

ABSTRACT: In the philosophy of language, there are many ongoing controversies that stem from relying too heavily on an utterance-based framework. The traditional approach of rigidly partitioning the utterance's meaning into what is grammatically determined from what is not may not fully capture the complexity of human language in real-world communicative contexts. To address this issue, we suggest shifting focus toward a broader analysis level encompassing conversations and discourses. From this broader perspective, it is possible to obtain a more integrated view of how linguistic and extra-linguistic aspects dynamically interact and thus reconsider semantics/pragmatics dichotomy as complementary dimensions. Meaning is not confined to linguistic structures alone but emerges from the dynamic interpla

SUBMITTER: Graci R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10570805 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature