Cognitive versus social aspects of pragmatic meaning: on the importance of identifying the subject as an ethical agent

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  • Kanavillil Rajagopalan

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Pragmatic meaning, cognitivism, social aspect, ethics,

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Is it possible to reconcile the cognitive and the social aspects of pragmatic meaning? Or could it be that the two are doomed forever to be locked in a perennial tug-of-war? I argue in this paper that the radical versions of both these theses are faulty for the same reason: viz, that of seeking to capture in a handful of deterministic rules everything that takes place at the pragmatic level. Furthermore, I argue that there is an urgent need to look upon the subject of language as a conscientious agent just as much as a person endowed with consciousness. In other words, the ethical question is invariably present in the confrontation between the cognitive and the social.

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RAJAGOPALAN, K. Cognitive versus social aspects of pragmatic meaning: on the importance of identifying the subject as an ethical agent. ALFA: Revista de Linguística, São Paulo, v. 43, 2001. Disponível em: https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/alfa/article/view/4087. Acesso em: 28 mar. 2024.

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