Pragmatics, discourse and philosophy

• Authors: Piotr Cap

Abstracts

EN

Following the linguistic turn in analytical philosophy, concern for language underlies some of the most important strands of philosophical practice, making issues of mind, language and discourse virtually inseparable elements of scientific inquiry. Just as philosophy looks to language and linguistics to endorse different ontological and epistemological postulates, linguistics looks to philosophy in addressing its key questions of meaning, function and use. In this paper I argue that pragmatics and discourse analysis are areas where the relation between language, linguistics and philosophy is particularly salient. Crucially, philosophy, its conceptions and frameworks, should never be viewed as ‘external’ to discourse. Rather, discourse and discourse study involving pragmatic tools are, in themselves, areas of intense philosophical practice. Results of this practice are relevant and of interest to not only language philosophers, but also to those exploring ontological and epistemological matters of general philosophy.

Keywords

EN

philosophy of language; philosophy of linguistics; pragmatics; discourse analysis; discourse practice; discourse data; speech act; macro speech act; presupposition; Proximization Theory

• Publisher: Wyższa Szkoła Gospodarki w Bydgoszczy. Wydawnictwo Uczelniane
• Journal: Heteroglossia- studia kulturoznawczo-filologiczne
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 13
• Pages: 123-141

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Piotr Cap

• University of Łódź

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Identifiers

DOI

10.34864/heteroglossia.issn.2084-1302.nr13.art7

Biblioteka Nauki

28762701