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The Aesthetics of Communication: Pragmatics and Beyond

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AESTHETICIZING PRAGMATICS The Gamut of Pragmatics Pragmatics emerged among the sciences of language at the end of the 1960's in reaction to certain totalizing models in linguistics: structuralism and generative grammar . Certain disciples of Chomsky became dissatisfied with autono- mous syntax and later with generative semantics: they decided to break away from their mentor. Whereas Chomsky continued to talk a lot about very little, they defied him by speaking very suggestively about an exces- sively broad range of phenomena. Pragmatics -which Bar-Hillel consid- ered as a 'wastebasket discipline' in the fifties - nevertheless gained respectability. The history of pragmatics spans, of course, much more than three decades. The Stoic conception of language, in the shadow of the great Greek tradition and therefore intensely subversive, had in fact a pragmatic aim. The term pragmatisch appears in Kant: it expresses a relation with a human goal, this goal being only determinable within a community. This characterization naturally inspires the pragmaticism of l the Neo-Kantian Charles Sanders Peirce . It is this Kant-Peirce lineage that led to Morris and Carnap's rather bland conceptions of pragmatics, after the heavy losses incurred by positivism and behaviorism. In any case, despite the constant presence of a pragmatic approach in the history of thought, this reassessment of pragmatics was experienced as a Significant break- through. A whole range of pragmatics came to the attention of linguists.

Language: English

Pages: 174

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Springer

Release: April 28, 1993

ISBN: 0792321987

ISBN 13: 9780792321989

The Aesthetics of Communication: Pragmatics and Beyond

5/5 ( ratings)

AESTHETICIZING PRAGMATICS The Gamut of Pragmatics Pragmatics emerged among the sciences of language at the end of the 1960's in reaction to certain totalizing models in linguistics: structuralism and generative grammar . Certain disciples of Chomsky became dissatisfied with autono- mous syntax and later with generative semantics: they decided to break away from their mentor. Whereas Chomsky continued to talk a lot about very little, they defied him by speaking very suggestively about an exces- sively broad range of phenomena. Pragmatics -which Bar-Hillel consid- ered as a 'wastebasket discipline' in the fifties - nevertheless gained respectability. The history of pragmatics spans, of course, much more than three decades. The Stoic conception of language, in the shadow of the great Greek tradition and therefore intensely subversive, had in fact a pragmatic aim. The term pragmatisch appears in Kant: it expresses a relation with a human goal, this goal being only determinable within a community. This characterization naturally inspires the pragmaticism of l the Neo-Kantian Charles Sanders Peirce . It is this Kant-Peirce lineage that led to Morris and Carnap's rather bland conceptions of pragmatics, after the heavy losses incurred by positivism and behaviorism. In any case, despite the constant presence of a pragmatic approach in the history of thought, this reassessment of pragmatics was experienced as a Significant break- through. A whole range of pragmatics came to the attention of linguists.

Language: English

Pages: 174

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Springer

Release: April 28, 1993

ISBN: 0792321987

ISBN 13: 9780792321989

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