讲座题目： A Belief-based Neo-Gricean Account of Meaning

主讲人简介

冯光武，四川眉山人，博士、教授、博士研究生导师、博士后合作导师、教育部高等学校英语专业教学指导委员会委员、富布莱特（耶鲁大学）高级研究学者、中国中西语言哲学研究会副会长、中国语言服务教育联盟副理事长、广州外国语学会副会长、广州欧美同学会理事。曾任教育部高等学校英语专业教学指导委员会秘书长、广东外语外贸大学英文学院学术委员会主任、广东省高考英语命题组组长。

先后在四川国语学院、广州外国语学院、英国利兹大学、英国雷丁大学、美国耶鲁大学获得英语语言文学学士学位、语言学与应用语言学硕士学位、语言学与英语教学硕士学位、理论语言学哲学博士学位以及富布莱特高级研究学者毕业证书。

研究兴趣主要包括日常语言哲学、语用学、语义学、外语教育改革研究。学术论文发表在Journal of Pragmatics、Language Sciences、 Pragmatics & Cognition、《外语教学与研究》《现代外语》《外国语》《中国外语》《外语界》等国内外CSSCI和SSCI期刊，学术专著A Theory of Conventional Implicature and Pragmatic Markers in Chinese由国际著名学术出版机构 Emerald Group Publishing Limited出版。

讲座内容简介

Taking as a point of departure the classical Gricean theory of meaning, this talk introduces a belief-based neo-Gricean account of meaning. We will first point out that Grice’s analytic framework of meaning is built around the speaker, with rationality, intention, and cooperation at the centre. However, his employment of cancellabilty as a test to distinguish what is said, conventional implicature, and conversational implicature is problematic in that the meaning of an utterance is hard to cancel on the one hand, and on the other hand it blurs the fact that the first source of meaning is the thought of the speaker. I will argue that by uttering an indicative sentence S, the speaker may convey a single ground-level belief that p, and/or a higher-level belief about p, and/or an additional belief that q. The ground-level belief that p is oriented to the actual world, thus objective; the higher-level belief about p is oriented to the speaker’s own mind, thus objective; the extra-belief that q is oriented to the addressee, thus intersubjective. These three types of meaning roughly correspond to Grice’s what is said, conventional implicature, and conversational implicature. I will define, characterize, and distinguish them with tests and examples.