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

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Autor(a) principal: Rajagopalan, Kanavillil
Data de Publicação: 2001
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Alfa (São José do Rio Preto. Online)
Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/alfa/article/view/4087
Resumo: 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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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Cognitive versus social aspects of pragmatic meaning: on the importance of identifying the subject as an ethical agent
title Cognitive versus social aspects of pragmatic meaning: on the importance of identifying the subject as an ethical agent
spellingShingle Cognitive versus social aspects of pragmatic meaning: on the importance of identifying the subject as an ethical agent
Rajagopalan, Kanavillil
Pragmatic meaning
cognitivism
social aspect
ethics
title_short Cognitive versus social aspects of pragmatic meaning: on the importance of identifying the subject as an ethical agent
title_full Cognitive versus social aspects of pragmatic meaning: on the importance of identifying the subject as an ethical agent
title_fullStr Cognitive versus social aspects of pragmatic meaning: on the importance of identifying the subject as an ethical agent
title_full_unstemmed Cognitive versus social aspects of pragmatic meaning: on the importance of identifying the subject as an ethical agent
title_sort Cognitive versus social aspects of pragmatic meaning: on the importance of identifying the subject as an ethical agent
author Rajagopalan, Kanavillil
author_facet Rajagopalan, Kanavillil
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Rajagopalan, Kanavillil
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Pragmatic meaning
cognitivism
social aspect
ethics
topic Pragmatic meaning
cognitivism
social aspect
ethics
description 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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