DOCUBENT RESUME ED 140 617 FL 006 596 AUTHOR Rogers, Andy, Rd.; And Others TITLE Proceedings of the Texas Conference on Performatives, Presuppositions and Implicatures. INSTITUTION _Center for Applied Linguistics, Arlington, . PUB EATE 77 NOTE 183p.; Some .parts may be marginallylegib4 d small print of the original document AVAILABLE FROM Center for Applied LinguisticS, 1611 N.Kehi'S Arlington, Virginia 22209 ($9.95) EDRS PRICE ME-$0.83 HC-$10.03.Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS English; Generative Grammar; *Language; Language Classification; *Language,Usage; Lexicography; *Linguistic Theory; *Pragmatics; Semantics; Synta Verbs --aDENTIFIERS Generative Semantics; Illocutionary Act; Implicatures; Performatives (Language); Presupposition .,. ABSTRACT The ten papers inthlisvolume are largely revisions , of papers presented at the Texasconference, held march 22-24, 1973. The firt paper, "Against Universal:SemanticRepresentation,u bY Gilber,i Harman, argues against theneed for (and the possibiliti of) a'level of semantic representation in atheorY of languave. "ReMarks on the Lexicography ofPerfOrmative Verbs," by Japes Df..McCrawley, is primarily conCerned with a characterization ofpeiformativity. it4 ClassifiCaticn of Illocutionary Acts," by John R.Searle, .Seis 4 a '(' classificat4cn scheme in terms of illocutionaryacts, rather than illocutionalry verbs. The next two papers, "Where to DoThings 'with rWords," by 'John Robert Ross,.and "ASpects ofLinguistic.Pragmatics," by Jerrold ik.Sadock, concern themselves with the questionof'how to treat -cases in which what a sentence mightbe said to mean is not what the speaker might be said to .havemeant. "What You Can Do with Words: Politeness, Pragmatics andPerformatives,".by Robin Lakoff, ,xp/Ores politeness in language. "Pragmatit'sin Natural Logic," by eorge Lakoff, \shows how three pragmatic conerns(indexical elements, rformatives and implicatures) can be incorporatedinto a generative mantics tteory\ The final three papers'dealwith the.'problems of prsupposition: f,..Pragmatic Presuppositions," by-RobertStalnaker;' .. ci esupposition and Linguistic Context," by Lauri Karttunen;and "Where Pragmatics pits In," by Richard H.Thomason. Suggestions for fur her reading-are appended. (Author/RM) *************************************'**4***************************** DocUments acquired by ERIC include manyinforial unpdblished maerials pot available from'other sources. ERIC makes everyeffort * to btain the best .dopy available.' 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Searle, CoPyright 0 1973 by John R. Searle. Reprinted with his permiss:.on. "Where to DO Things with Words," by John Robert Poss. Copyright 0 1975 .by John Robert Ross. Reprinted with his permission from Peter Cole and Jerry I. Morgan, eds., Syntax and Semant!cs: Speech Acts. New York: Academic. Press, 1975. "Pragmat i.g.S.jri Natural Logic," by George Lakof. Copyright (..) 1973 by George Lakoff. Reprinted with his pet-Mission from E. Keenan, ed,, formal Semantics of Natural Languages. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1975. "Pragmatic Presuppositions," by Robert C..Stalnaker. Copyright 0 by Nem York University Press. Reprinted by permissionof New York University Press and Milton K. Munitz,from Milton K. Munitz -and Peter K. Ung.er, eds., Semantics and Philosophy. New York: New York University Press, 1974 "Presupposition and Linguistic. Context," by Lauri Karttunen. Copyright. 0 1974 by Walter de Gruyter and Company. Reprinted by thelr permis- sicin and by permission of,Kauri.Karttunen from Theoretical Linguistics' 1(1/2), 1974. June 1977. Copyright 0 1977 by the Center for Applied Linguistics 1611 North Kent Street Arlington, Virginia 22209 ISBN: 87281-063-1 : Library of Congress ,Catalog Card Number:_ 77-79322 Printed in the United States of America :3 Note of Appreciation This volume.. originates from a Conference on erformancev, Conversational Implicature,and Presuppositions, held MarfR/i 22-24, 1973 at the University of Texas at Austin. The conference was ponsored by the university'3 .College of Humanities, College of Soc 1 and Behavioral Sciences, and Comparative S71,dies Frogram; thc Celer foT Applied Linguistics; and tbe American Council of Learned.Sucie les. The organizers of the conference gratefully acknowledge the supp rt of these sponsors and would also like to express their appreciation o the Many people who helped make the cotn- ference possible, includin, /oug Browning, Bob Harms, and Rea'Keast, at:.: the time chairmen, respec ively, of the Philosophy, Lingiiistics, and English Departments; Ja 's McKie, Dean-of the College '.Social'and Behavioral Sciences; S anley N, Werbow, .Dean Of- the ColZege of Humanities; Elspeth Riistow,'Chairman.of the Comparative Studies Program; and especially Jim Kaufman, Associate Dean of the College of Humanitios, and Rudolph C. Troike, Director of the Center for Applied Lin!viistics, both of whose . assistance, support, and encouragement were instrumental -in bringing about ' the Conference. We.would also like to expreSS our appreciation to Emmen Bach and Stan Peters, without whose help and advice we would have, bad no idea of how to put together another in.the series of Texas conferences in linguistics. Finally., we wish to express our special appreciation to Marc) Taylor of the Publications Department of the Center. for Applied L,ngiiistics for her careful and painstaking help in the copy-editing of this volume.anc, in its final preparation for puhlic:ition:Her.patient and cheerful .help made our task much easier. Andy Rogers Bob Wall John.P. Murphy' iii Table of Contents to*" Note of Appreciation iii Introduction' vil Against Uniersal Semantic Representation, by Gilbert Harman 1. Remarks on the Lexicoaraphy of'Performative Verbsi by James P McCawley 4 -13 A Classification af Illocutionaru Acts, by John R. Searle 27 Where to'Do Things with Words, *by John Robert Ross 47 Aspects of Linguistic Pragmatic-,, by Jerrold M. Sadock 67 What You Can Do w:th ;o1itencss, Pr.2gmaticzi, and Performati'ves, 'by Robin Lakoff 79 Pragmatics in Natural Logic; by George Lakoff 07 Pragmatic PresupPosit2ons, by Robert Stalnaker .115 Presupposition .and Linguistic Contex't, by Lauri Karttunen 149 'Where Pragmatics Pitsrr,by Richmond H. Thomason 161 Suggestions.for Further Weading 167 V Introduction The papers in this.volume are largely revisions' of\Iapers presented at the Texas confernce. Altlylugh,.thenference was.oa the announced topics of performatives, conversat'ional implicatare, and presUp'position, as might have been expected the subjects dealt,with were more diVerse, including as wiill the question of universal semantCh representation, politeness in Ian-. guage, and indexicals. In spite of.the apparent diversity of questions raised and discussed, one generalization. emerged from the bulk of the papers nd discussion: that the study of pragmatics is essential to anycomplete and adequate theory of natural language. In the opening paper, "Against Universal Semantic Representation," Gilbert Harman-pr..)ses a theory of language which, while itis 4ntended to account for most fthe language phenomena which most semantlically-orinted contemporary linguists and.philosopehrS have argued must he (accounted for in a theory of language (such as implication; meaning relation among predicates, presuppositions, implicature, speech act'phenomena, and synyix.) differs significantly in several respects from current theories. \ First,. Harman's theory of language includest,that he calls a theory'of conceptual role. Harman claims that the meaning of a linguistic expression : depends in part on its rolt in a conceptual scheme; that, for example, the expression chemical substance does not mean the.sameithing to a modern chemist that it does to a'medieval alchemist, in part becuse_the-chemist and the alchemist have different concepts of chemistry. HarMan proposes that a theory of language should include a theory.of conceptual role to account for such facts, including the.connectionsbetWeen language and other language, language and observation, language and behavior, and Other similar phenomena. The connections between language and other language arc pa be described by im- plications-aMong expressions in the language which, !in Harman's system, arc cha-acterized by the interaction of grammar-asslgned logical formo.the logic, and the axioms of the language. -Under.the heading of the connections between language and observation, a theory-Of concoptual role should account for facts like a speaker's ability to apply-fh.g word red to perceived red objectS, which,"HarMan claims, is part, of the