Commitment As A Cognitive Notion

Commitment as a cognitive notion: the hearer’s point of view (originally: Can implicitely derived contents intergrate a commitment store? A cognitive pragmatic account of commitment assessment ) Steve Oswald and Louis de Saussure Semantic – pragmatic research group – University of Neuchatel IADA Milano 2008

Aim of the talk ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Commitment: what is this? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Not psychological: some regrets ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The uselessness to try the classical ‘psychological’ way ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Some nuances however ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

I don’t know what I believe myself ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

If I don’t hold identifiable beliefs? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Identifying commitments ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Identifying commitments: a matter of understanding ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Problem 1: Literality, expliciteness and context-dependency ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Problem 2 : expliciteness and ‘what is said’ ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Commitment and implicatures ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

‘ Commitment is an inference’ ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

… drawn by the hearer ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Commitment-attribution ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Commitment as a scale ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Difficult cases ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Inferring commitment: what to look for ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Where is the straw man ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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