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Page 286 of 105132

  • Boys Will be Boys: ‘Radical Semantics’ vs. ‘Radical Pragmatics‘

  • Anna Wierzbicka
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 63 / Issue 1 / March 1987
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 March 2026, pp. 95-114

  • Colloquial ‘tautologies’ such as War is war or A promise is a promise have often been adduced in support of a ‘Gricean’ account of language use. The present article shows, however, that ‘tautological constructions’ are partly conventional and language-specific, and that each such construction has a specific meaning which cannot be fully predicted in terms of any universal pragmatic maxims. It is argued that the attitudinal meanings conveyed by various tautological constructions and by similar linguistic devices should be stated in rigorous and yet self-explanatory semantic formulae. ‘Radical pragmatics’ is rejected as a blind alley, and an integrated approach to language structure and language use is proposed, based on a coherent semantic theory which is capable of representing ‘objective’ and ‘subjective’ aspects of meaning in a unified framework.

  • Redundancy, markedness, and simultaneous constraints in phonology

  • Michael M. T. Henderson
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 52 / Issue 2 / June 1976
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 March 2026, pp. 314-325

  • In the markedness model of SPE (Chomsky & Halle 1968), redundancy rules lose their ability to characterize regularities and must convert ‘optimal’ phonemes to ‘real’ ones. Lexical redundancy and low-level segmental redundancy are confused in the SPE model, in which values are specified for all features in lexical matrices. In assigning values to features with no phonetic correlates in certain major classes, absolute marking conventions create unnatural classes and unpronounceable segments; their output should be expressed in u's, and interpretive marking conventions should assign values only to meaningful features.

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