Papers by Jacques Moeschler
Non-Lexical Pragmatics
De Gruyter eBooks, Nov 15, 2019
Truth-conditional pragmatics
John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, Dec 6, 2018
Introduction à la linguistique contemporaine
Armand Colin eBooks, 1997
Relevance Theory and Intercultural Communication
The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Pragmatics
Truth-conditional pragmatics
Handbook of Pragmatics
What Is the Contribution of Connectives to Discourse Meaning? The With or Without Issue (WWI)
Argumentation Library, 2018
For more than thirty years, semantics and pragmatics have benefitted from descriptive studies on ... more For more than thirty years, semantics and pragmatics have benefitted from descriptive studies on discourse connectives, the argumentative function of which has been recognized in different theoretical frameworks: theory of linguistic argumentation (Ducrot et al. in Les mots du discours. Minuit, Paris, 1980), Relevance Theory (Blakemore in Semantic constraints on relevance. Blackwell, Oxford, 1987; Carston in Thoughts and utterances: the pragmatics of explicit communication. Blackwell, Oxford, 2002), cognitive semantics (Sanders and Nordmann in Discourse Processes 29(1):37–60, 2000), Rhetorical Structure Theory (Taboada in Journal of Pragmatics 38(4):567–592, 2006). However, an issue has not been deeply investigated: What is the difference between discourses with and without connectives? In this chapter, I raise the issue of the function of connectives in discourse, the different ways of defining connectives, the paradox that cognitive approaches to connectives give rise to, the role of mais in argumentation, and the issue of the contribution of connectives to argumentation. In the analysis I show how the contrast between sequences with and without connectives can be thought in a more general framework: argumentation sequences with connectives are more efficient because they make argumentation relations explicit, and have as side effects the minimization of processing costs and the maximizing of relevance; moreover, they are stronger because connectives introduce new focal information, which has more contextual implications than a non-focal one.
Linguistic Theory and Pragmatics
How speaker meaning, explicature and implicature work together
Négation, scope and the descriptive/metalinguistic distinction
Lingua, 2016
Where is procedural meaning located? Evidence from discourse connectives and tenses
L'interface langage-cognition : actes du 19e Congrès international des linguistes, Genève, 22-27 juillet 2013 = The language-cognition interface
Logical , temporal and causal interpretations of conjunction . An experimental approach
It is well known that the conjunction et can have various interpretations in natural language suc... more It is well known that the conjunction et can have various interpretations in natural language such as logical, temporal or causal ones. Assuming a structural uniformity among these different interpretations, semantic and pragmatic theories explain these interpretative differences by the general pragmatic principles of communication (Grice 1975, 1989, Posner 1980, Schmerling 1975, Carston 1993, Blakemore & Carston 1999, Blakemore & Carston 2005). However, quite recently, Bjorkman (2010) has put forth some arguments in favor of a structural division among these different interpretations. In brief, asymmetric interpretations (temporal and causal) in their syntactic structure involve a coordination of temporal phrases (TP), while symmetric interpretations (logical) imply a coordination of the complementizer phrases (CP).
Négation, polarité et distinction négation descriptive/métalinguistique
Remarques sur la Théorie du langage du point de vue de la pragmatique contemporaine
Introduction to pragmatics
Pragmatics is the study of language use and its object is meaning in use. The main hypothesis of ... more Pragmatics is the study of language use and its object is meaning in use. The main hypothesis of contemporary pragmatics is that semantic interpretation is underspecified and must be enriched at the pragmatic stage. In this section, I will first give a brief survey of what pragmatics is and is not, and the types of pragmatic theories available on the scientific market (Section 4.1). Then (Section 4.2), I will discuss more precisely the semantics-pragmatics interface, with a special focus on the possible border between semantic and pragmatic meanings. Inference will be the third topic (Section 4.3) and I will conclude this introduction by a crash course on Relevance Theory (Section 4.4), one of most complete pragmatic theories today.
Dans cet article, nous tentons d'expliquer pourquoi les approches classiques des temps verbau... more Dans cet article, nous tentons d'expliquer pourquoi les approches classiques des temps verbaux et de la reference temporelle, singulierement les approches structurales et textuelles, sont inadequates et doivent etre abandonnees au profit d'une analyse integrant, d'une part, les acquis des descriptions grammaticales traditionnelles et, d'autre part, les perspectives theoriques de la pragmatique de la pertinence. Nous donnons notamment une analyse des interpretations temporelles (en avant) et causales (en arriere) des enonces dans le discours, analyse basee sur la distinction entre informations contextuelle, conceptuelle et procedurale. Enfin, nous indiquons en quoi l'approche pragmatique defendue se distingue des analyses recentes de la semantique du discours.
Formal and natural languages: what logic tells us about natural language
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