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Logophoricity refers to the phenomenon whereby the ‘perspective’ or ‘point of view’ of an internal protagonist of a sentence or discourse, as opposed to that of the current, external speaker, is being reported by using some morphological and/or syntactic means. The term ‘perspective’ or ‘point of view’ is used here in a technical sense and is intended to encompass words, thoughts, knowledge, emotion, perception and space-location [e.g. Huang (2000a: 173, 2001, 2002: 213–224, 2006/2009: 18–25, 2010a: 75–101)]. The aim of this article is threefold. In the first place, I shall provide a cross-linguistic, descriptive analysis of the phenomenology of logophoricity. Secondly, I shall present a pragmatic account of logophoricity and the related use of regular expressions/pronouns in terms of conversational implicature, utilizing the revised neo-Gricean pragmatic theory of anaphora developed by Huang (1991, 1994/2007, 2000a, 2000b, 2004, 2007, 2010a: 75–101, 2010b: 33–37)] [see also e.g. Levinson (2000)]. Thirdly and finally, I shall argue that (1) the neo-Gricean pragmatic analysis of logophoricity and the related use of regular expressions/pronouns in terms of pragmatic intrusion made here provides further evidence in support of the thesis that contrary to the classical Gricean position, pragmatics does ‘intrude’ or enter into the conventional, truth-conditional content of a sentence uttered, (2) pragmatic intrusion into logophoricity is a conversational implicature rather than an explicature/pragmatically enrich said/impliciture, and (3) it involves ‘pre’-semantic neo-Gricean pragmatics.
This article is based in part on, and a substantially revised and updated version of, Sect. 3.3.2 and a portion of Sect. 4.2.3 of my (2000) Anaphora: A Cross-Linguistic Study (Oxford University Press). However, the arguments that (1) the neo-Gricean pragmatic analysis of logophoricity and the related use of regular expressions/pronouns in terms of pragmatic intrusion made in this article provides further evidence in support of the thesis that contrary to Grice, pragmatics does ‘intrude’ or enter into the conventional, truth-conditional content of a sentence uttered, (2) pragmatic intrusion into logophoricity is a conversational implicature rather than an explicature/pragmatically enrich said/impliciture, and (3) it involves ‘pre-’semantic neo-Gricean pragmatics are new, hence ‘neo-Gricean truth-conditional pragmatics’ in the title.
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Huang, Y. (2013). Logophoricity and Neo-Gricean Truth-Conditional Pragmatics. In: Capone, A., Lo Piparo, F., Carapezza, M. (eds) Perspectives on Linguistic Pragmatics. Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01014-4_8
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