Acta Linguistica Hungarica
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Volume 52: Issue 1
Remarks on the cognitive base of pragmatic principles
Authors: András Kertész 1 and Csilla Rákosi 2
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  • 1 Research Group for Theoretical Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at the University of Debrecen Német Nyelvészeti Tanszék Pf. 47, H-4010 Debrecen, Hungary
  • | 2 Research Group for Theoretical Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at the University of Debrecen Pf. 47, H-4010 Debrecen, Hungary
Pages:
5–40
Online Publication Date:
19 Sep 2005
Publication Date:
01 May 2005
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/aling.52.2005.1.2
Keywords:
pragmatics; pragmatics; plausible reasoning; theory of language; philosophy of linguistics; cognitive science
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The present paper aims at the exemplification of the applicability of plausibility analysis to linguistics. Starting from the criticism of Robinson (1997), the paper argues for two assumptions. Firstly, as opposed to a theory of distributed systems, it is a theory of plausible reasoning that is capable of capturing basic methodological problems of theory formation in pragmatics (such as circularity, category error, the arbitrariness of interpretations of data and the objectification of the theorist's cultural and linguistic knowledge as principles of language behaviour). Secondly, the cognitive base of pragmatic principles is inferential and plausibilistic, rather than non-inferential and probabilistic.

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