The notion of conventional meaning at the semantics-pragmatics interface
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- Luis Eduardo Dominiccini Bustos (CO) Instituto Caro y Cuervo
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The present article discusses the notion of conventional meaning at the semantics-pragmatics interface. Such concept is usually the starting point of a traditionally received view on how post-Gricean linguistics should draw the distinction between what is said and what is implicated. In this paper, such line of thought is brought inbto discussion and the usefulness of the notion is questioned. The article is divided in two parts. In the first part, I defend the idea that conventionality does not capture the interface properties that its advocates intent it to. The second part argues that accepting or rejecting conventionality as part of the set of criteria to assess an adequate theory of meaning partially depends on considering our intuitions about semantic content and pragmatic enrichment.
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