Non-propositional meanings and commitment attribution

Autor:	Misha-Laura Müller
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Fallacy 050101 languages & linguistics Linguistics and Language Communication 05 social sciences Cognition 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Straw man Excuse Epistemology Argument 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Misattribution of memory Attribution Psychology Utterance
Zdroj:	Journal of Argumentation in Context. 9:148-166
ISSN:	2211-4750 2211-4742
DOI:	10.1075/jaic.00011.mul
Popis:	In this paper, I elaborate on the cognitive pragmatic approaches of commitment attribution. I argue that non-propositional meanings (Sperber and Wilson 2015) play a role in the reconstruction of arguments (see Oswald 2016) and I underline that this constitutes a further argument in favor of a cognitive approach to the study of commitment attribution. I focus on an authentic example of a straw man fallacy consisting in (a) an implicit misattribution of commitments to the speaker with the form “Excuse me for having done p” and (b) a refutation of the attributed position by means of non-propositional effects (in this case, the refutation is implicitly conveyed through an ironical utterance). I conclude that non-propositional effects can serve as a criterion to distinguish a mere false attribution of commitments from a full-fledged straw man fallacy.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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