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Beijing Normal University, 31 May 2013. Interactive Semantics: Rethinking the Composition of Meaning Kasia M. Jaszczolt University of Cambridge http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/kmj21. Outline: Contextualism about meaning Default Semantics and Interactive Semantics - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Beijing Normal University, 31 May 2013
Interactive Semantics:Rethinking the Composition of
Meaning
Kasia M. JaszczoltUniversity of Cambridge
http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/kmj21
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Outline:
Contextualism about meaning
Default Semantics and Interactive Semantics
Example: Representing time in discourse
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Paul Grice: Intentions
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‘A meantNN something by x’: A uttered x with the intention of inducing a belief by means of the recognition of this intention.
Grice (1989: 219)
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Implicature (implicatum)
Inferences that are drawn from an utterance. They are seen by the hearer as being intended by the speaker.
Speakers implicate, hearers infer (Horn 2004).
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Implicature (implicatum)Inferences that are drawn from an utterance. They are seen by the hearer as being intended by the speaker.
Speakers implicate, hearers infer (Horn 2004).
Inference in implicature is cancellable:
‘Tom has three cats.’ ‘Tom has three cats, if not four.’
vs. deductive inference: ((p → q) ∧ p) → q)
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Modified Occam’s Razor:
‘Senses are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.’
Grice (1989: 47)
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Post-Gricean pragmatics:
?Where is the boundary between
semantics and pragmatics?
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Contextualism (currently dominant view)
‘... what is said turns out to be, in a large measure, pragmatically determined. Besides the conversational implicatures, which are external to (and combine with) what is said, there are other nonconventional, pragmatic aspects of utterance meaning, which are constitutive of what is said.’
Recanati (1989: 98; see also Recanati 2004, 2010, 2012)
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Some British people like cricket.Some but not all British people like cricket.
Everybody read Frege.Every member of the research group read Frege.
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Semantic analysis takes us only part of the way towards the recovery of utterance meaning. Pragmatic enrichment completes the process.
Enrichment: some +> some but not alleverybody +> everybody in the room, every
acquaintance of the speaker, etc.
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Pragmatic enrichment of what is said is often automatic,
subconscious (Dafault/Interactive Semantics: ‘default’).
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Modulation (Recanati 2004, 2005):
The logical form becomes enriched/modulated as a result of pragmatic inference and the entire semantic/pragmatic product becomes subjected to the truth-conditional analysis.
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Modulation (Recanati 2004, 2005):
The logical form becomes ?enriched/modulated as a result of pragmatic inference and the entire semantic/pragmatic product becomes subjected to the truth-conditional analysis.
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Minimalism/contextualism debate
‘Is semantic interpretation a matter of holistic guesswork (like the interpretation of kicks under the table), rather than an algorithmic, grammar-driven process as formal semanticists have claimed? Contextualism: Yes. Literalism: No. (…) Like Stanley and the formal semanticists, I maintain that the semantic interpretation is grammar-driven.’
Recanati (2012: 148)
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Conceptual structure in Default Semantics
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?How far can the logical form be extended? ‘How much pragmatics’ is allowed in the semantic representation?
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The logical form of the sentence can not only be extended but also replaced by a new semantic representation when the primary, intended meaning demands it. Such extensions or substitutions are primary meanings and their representations are merger representations in Default Semantics. There is no syntactic constraint on merger representations.
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Object of study of the theory of meaning:
Discourse meaning intended by Model Speaker and recovered by Model Addressee (primary meaning)
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Radical contextualism
DS does not recognize the level of meaning at which the logical form is pragmatically developed/modulated as a real, interesting, and cognitively justified construct.
To do so would be to assume that syntax plays a privileged role among various carriers of information (contextualists’ mistake).
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Child to mother: Everybody has a bike.
(a) All of the child’s friends have bikes.
(b) Many/most of the child’s classmates have bikes.
(c) The mother should consider buying her son a bike.
(d) Cycling is a popular form of exercise among children.
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Child to mother: Everybody has a bike.
(a) All of the child’s friends have bikes.
(b) Many/most of the child’s classmates have bikes.
(c) The mother should consider buying her son a bike.
(d) Cycling is a popular form of exercise among children.
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Interlocutors frequently communicate their main intended content through a proposition which is not syntactically restricted.
Experimental evidence:
Pitts 2005Sysoeva and Jaszczolt 2007Schneider 2009
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Merger Representation Primary meanings are modelled as the so-called
merger representations.
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Merger Representation
Primary meanings are modelled as merger representations.
The outputs of sources of information about meaning merge and all the outputs are treated on an equal footing.
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Merger Representation Primary meanings are modelled as the so-called
merger representations.
The outputs of sources of information about meaning merge and all the outputs are treated on an equal footing. The syntactic constraint is abandoned.
Merger representations have the status of mental representations.
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Merger Representation • Primary meanings are modelled as merger
representations.
• The outputs of sources of information about meaning merge and all the outputs are treated on an equal footing. The syntactic constraint is abandoned.
• Merger representations have the status of mental representations.
• They have a compositional structure: they are proposition-like, truth-conditionally evaluable constructs.
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Sources of information for
(i) world knowledge (WK)(ii) word meaning and sentence structure (WS)(iii) situation of discourse (SD)(iv) properties of the human inferential system (IS)(v) stereotypes and presumptions about society and
culture (SC)
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SCA Botticelli was stolen from the Uffizi last week.
A painting by Botticelli was stolen from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy last week.
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ISThe author of Wolf Hall is visiting Cambridge this spring.
Hilary Mantel is visiting Cambridge this spring.
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world knowledge (WK)
word meaning and sentence structure (WS)
situation of discourse (SD)
stereotypes and presumptions properties of human inferential system (IS) about society and culture (SC)
Fig. 1: Sources of information contributing to a merger representation Σ
merger representation Σ
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The model of sources of information can be mapped onto types of processes that produce the merger representation of the primary meaning and the additional (secondary) meanings.
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Primary meaning: combination of word meaning and sentence structure (WS)
conscious pragmatic inferencepm
(from situation of discourse, social and social, cultural and cognitive defaults (CD) cultural assumptions, and world world-knowledge defaultspm (SCWDpm) knowledge) (CPIpm) Secondary meanings:
Social, cultural and world-knowledge defaultssm (SCWDsm) conscious pragmatic inferencesm (CPIsm)
Fig. 2: Utterance interpretation according to the processing model of the revised version of Default Semantics
merger representation Σ
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Mapping between sources and processes
WK SCWD or CPISC SCWD or CPIWS WS (logical form)SD CPIIS CD
In building merger representations DS makes use of the processing model and it indexes the components of with a subscript standing for the type of processing.
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Parsimony of Levels Principle (POL):
Levels of senses are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.
A: I’ve cut my finger.B: You are not going to die! Primary, main meaning: ‘There is nothing to worry
about.’
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Merger representations
What is expressed in the lexicon in one language may be expressed by grammar in another.
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Merger representations
What is expressed in the lexicon in one language may be expressed by grammar in another.
What is expressed overtly in one language may be left to pragmatic inference or default interpretation in another.
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e.g. sentential connectives:
Wari’ (Chapacura-Wanham, the Amazon) Tzeltal (Mayan, Mexico) no ‘or’
Maricopa (Yuman, Arizona) no ‘and’ Guugu Yimithirr (Australian Aboriginal) no ‘if’
cf. Mauri & van der Auwera 2012; Evans & Levinson 2009
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English ‘and’
Tom finished the chapter and closed the book.
and +> and then
Tom finished the chapter and then closed the book.Tom finished the chapter. He closed the book.
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‘…while perhaps none of the logical connectives are universally lexically expressed, there is no evidence that languages differ in whether or not logical connectives are present in their logical forms’.
von Fintel & Matthewson (2008: 170)
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Merger representations are compositional.
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Compositionality is a methodological principle:
‘…it is always possible to satisfy compositionality by simply adjusting the syntactic and/or semantic tools one uses, unless that is, the latter are constrained on independent grounds.’
Groenendijk and Stokhof (1991: 93)
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Compositionality should be an empirical assumption about the nature of possible human languages.
Szabó (2000)
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Fodor (2008)
compositionality on the level of referential properties (for Mentalese)
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Compositionality disputes
Ascribing generative capacity to syntax (Chomsky and followers)
Compositionality as a property of semantics Montague and followers, e.g. DRT, DPL,
representationalism Evans and Levinson (2009), generative power
of semantics/pragmatics (conceptual structure)
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Interactive compositionality (Default Semantics/Interactive Semantics)
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von Fintel and Matthewson (2008: 191):
‘We found that languages often express strikingly similar truth conditions, in spite of non-trivial differences in lexical semantics or syntax. We suggested that it may therefore be fruitful to investigate the validity of ‘purely semantic’ universals, as opposed to syntax-semantics universals’.
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What are they?
vF&M (2008):
(i) some universal semantic composition principles
(ii) Gricean principles of utterance interpretation
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‘For our generativist critics, generality is to be found at the level of structural representation; for us, at the level of process’
Evans and Levinson (2009: 475)
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Interactive Semantics:
Compositionality is a semantic universal
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Selected applications of DS
definite descriptions, proper names, belief reports (Jaszczolt 1997, 1999); negation and discourse connectives (Lee 2002); presupposition, sentential connectives, number terms (Jaszczolt 2005); temporality, and modality (Jaszczolt 2009; 2012; 2013a; Srioutai 2004, 2006; Jaszczolt and Srioutai 2012; Engemann 2008; first-person reference and de se belief reports (Jaszczolt 2013b; forthcoming); conditional constructions (Elder in progress; Jaszczolt & Elder 2013 & in progress)
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Time in discourse
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Jaszczolt, K. M. 2013. ‘Temporality and epistemic commitment: An unresolved question’, in: K. Jaszczolt & L. de Saussure (eds). Time: Language, Cognition, and Reality. Oxford: Oxford University Press (vol. 1 of Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought)
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Swahili: consecutive tense marker ka
a. …wa-Ingereza wa-li-wa-chukua wa-le maiti,3Pl-British 3Pl-Past-3Pl-take 3Pl-Dem corpses‘…then the British took the corpses,
b. wa-ka-wa-tia katika bao moja,
3Pl-Cons-3Pl-put.on on board oneput them on a flat board,
c. wa-ka-ya-telemesha maji-ni kwa utaratibu w-ote…3Pl-Cons-3Pl-lower water-Loc with order 3Pl-alland lowered them steadily into the water…’
adapted from Givón (2005: 154)
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cf. rhetorical structure rules, Asher and Lascarides 2003
Narration:
Lidia played a sonata. The audience applauded. e1 e2
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Thai
f3on t1okrain fall
(a) It is raining. (default meaning)(b) It was raining. (possible intended meaning)
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Merger Representations for the Past
(1) Lidia went to a concert yesterday.(regular past)
(2) This is what happened yesterday. Lidia goes to a concert, meets her school friend and tells her…(past of narration)
(3) Lidia would have gone to a concert (then).(epistemic necessity past)
(4) Lidia must have gone to a concert (yesterday). (epistemic necessity past)
(5) Lidia may have gone to a concert (yesterday).(epistemic possibility past)
(6) Lidia might have gone to a concert (yesterday).(epistemic possibility past)
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Fig. 3: Degree of epistemic commitment for selected expressions with past-time reference
rp, pn enp epp
1 0
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ACCΔ Σ ├
‘it is acceptable to the degree Δ that Σ is true’
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amended and extended language of DRSs (Kamp and Reyle 1993)
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Fig. 4: Σ for ‘Lidia went to a concert yesterday.’ (regular past)
x t Σ' [Lidia]CD (x) yesterday (t) [ACC
rp ├ Σ']WS Σ' [x go to a concert]WS
Σ
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Past-time reference in Thai (pragmatic)
m3ae:r3i:I kh2ian n3iy3ai:
Mary write novel
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Fig. 5: for ‘Mary wrote a novel’ (regular past)
x y '
[m3ae:r3i:I]CD (x) [n3iy3ai:]CD (y) ' [x kh2ian y]WS [ACC
rp ├ ']WS, CPIpm
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Merger Representations for the Present
(1) Lidia is at a concert now.(regular present)
(2) Lidia will be at a concert now.(epistemic necessity present)
(3) Lidia must be at a concert now.(epistemic necessity present)
(4) Lidia may be at a concert now.(epistemic possibility present)
(5) Lidia might be at a concert now.(epistemic possibility present)
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Fig. 5: Degree of epistemic commitment for expressions with present-time reference
rn enn epn
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Fig. 6: Σ for Lidia will be at a concert now’ (epistemic necessity present)
x t Σ' [Lidia]CD (x) now (t) [ACC
enn will ├ Σ']WS,CPIpm Σ' [x be at a concert]WS
Σ
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Merger Representations for the Future (1) Lidia goes to a concert tomorrow evening.
(‘tenseless’ future)(2) Lidia is going to a concert tomorrow evening.
(futurate progressive)(3) Lidia is going to go to a concert tomorrow evening.
(periphrastic future)(4) Lidia will go to a concert tomorrow evening.
(regular future)(5) Lidia must be going to a concert tomorrow evening.
(epistemic necessity future)(6) Lidia may go to a concert tomorrow evening.
(epistemic possibility future)(7) Lidia might go to a concert tomorrow evening.
(epistemic possibility future)
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Fig. 7: Degree of modal detachment for selected expressions with future-time reference
epf enf rf pf fp tf
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Fig. 8: Σ for ‘Lidia is going to a concert tomorrow evening.’ (futurate progressive)
x t Σ'
[Lidia]CD (x) tomorrow evening (t) [ACC
fp ├ Σ']WS, CPIpm Σ' [x go to a concert]WS
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Summary & Conclusions
Merger representations of Interactive Semantics can represent lexicon/grammar/pragmatics trade-offs in expressing meaning in discourse.
Compositionality is best understood as pragmatic compositionality, sought at the level of Σs rather than WS.
Cross-linguistic differences in expressing time can be explained by a universal semantics of temporality in terms of the underlying concept of epistemic modality ACCΔ ├ Σ .
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‘Holistic guesswork’?
‘Is semantic interpretation a matter of holistic guesswork (like the interpretation of kicks under the table), rather than an algorithmic, grammar-driven process as formal semanticists have claimed?’
Recanati (2012: 148)
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radical contextualism
holistic (interactive semantics)compositional (pragmatic compositionality)?algorithmic (merger representation)
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