성균관대학교 "철학과인문교육" 연구소의 2025년 가을 해외학자 초청강연을 9월 20일(토요일) 오후 4:00~6:00에 퇴계인문관 31511호에서 개최하게 되어 아래와 같이 알려드립니다.

이번 발표회에서는 예루살렘 히브리 대학(Hebrew University of Jerusalem)의 Igal Kvart 교수님께서 "A New Pragmatics, with Application to Assertion"라는 제목으로 발표하실 예정입니다. 선생님들과 학생분들의 많은 관심과 참여 부탁드립니다.

발표 제목: A New Pragmatics, with Application to Assertion
초록: In this paper I present a new approach to Pragmatics and a new Pragmatic Theory, with applications to Assertion, Presuppositions and more. The new Pragmatics comes in a new Conceptual Framework. (전체 초록은 맨 아래에서 확인할 수 있습니다.)

Bio: Prof. Igal Kvart is a Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with an affiliation to Rutgers University. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh with W. Sellars, on counterfactuals. His book A Theory of Counterfactuals (1984) was awarded the Johnsonian Prize by the Journal of Philosophy. He has also published extensively in prestigious journals on topics such as causation, reference, knowledge, pragmatic encroachment, and the new pragmatics.

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일 시: 2025년 9월 20일 토요일 오후 4:00~6:00
장 소: 성균관대학교 퇴계인문관 5층 511호(#31511)

일 정:
4:00~6:00 Igal Kvart (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
                   A New Pragmatics, with Application to Assertion

발표회와 관련하여 궁금하신 점이 있으시면 아래의 연락처로 문의해 주시기 바랍니다.

철학과인문교육연구소 연구소장 이정규 / 02-760-0208 / jeonggyulee@skku.edu
철학과인문교육연구소 조교 우인진 / jaegoi53@gmail.com

Full Abstract: 

      In this paper I present a new approach to Pragmatics and a new Pragmatic Theory, with applications to Assertion, Presuppositions and more. The new Pragmatics comes in a new Conceptual Framework. The main concepts are:

1. Steering-Thrusts – any Verbal Act (spoken or written or thought) comes with a certain degree of 'steering' the hearer/audience towards adopting a certain content (conveyed by the speaker's Verbal Act).

2. Pragmatic Stances: Types of cognitive states hearers are steered towards. One among others is the Epistemic/informational Pragmatic Stance, with propositional contents – familiar in traditional Pragmatics (Grice, Stalnaker). But there are various others – attitudinal, attentive, Action-Directed, emotive, etc. Their contents need not be propositional.

3. A new set of Norms – comprising Conversational Etiquette. One among them is the familiar Sincerity Norm. It's generalized into the Broad Sincerity Norm. But Conversational Etiquette comprises also other types of norms, not considered in current Pragmatics. The proposed Pragmatics is not governed by Gricean Maxims of Rationality but rather by different special norms of Conversational Etiquette

4. A cognitive state of Posting -- having a certain Pragmatic Stance, which is NORM-CONFERRED by Conversational Etiquette, usually via Steering by a verbal act that makes it PUBLIC. For instance, in steering towards an Epistemic Position, the speaker THEREBY Posts having it.

      Applications: This set of concepts makes it possible to provide a new outlook on what Assertions are – they inherently invoke certain degrees of Steering-Thrust, NOT some epistemic position. So-called Presuppositions turn out to be mental acts of Posting-Without-Steering. (Epistemic) Pragmatic Encroachment, it would follow, DOESN'T EXIST – the underpinning phenomena are Verbal Acts conveying 2 distinct Steering Thrusts, where the Action-Directed Steering Thrust OVERWHELM the epistemic Steering Thrust (in view of strong normative pressures, such as in High Stakes): The phenomenon is PRAGMATIC, not semantic (as in, e.g., Epistemic Contextualism, or Shifty Epistemology). Misleading is a Pragmatic phenomenon – conveying implicit contents that the speaker Posts having but in fact doesn't. Pragmatic Inconsistencies, as in Moorean sentences, involve CONFLICTING STEERING THRUSTS, i.e., in opposite directions (vis-à-vis towards an action, an epistemic position, an attitude, etc.).

       Among many particular and general differences from traditional Pragmatics, note Grice's notion of implicature, which is inexorably interwoven with his set of Maxims (aiming at Rational Cooperation towards a Common Goal), which therefore needs to be replaced by the more neutral and general Implicit Content. The domain of application of STPP is much larger than that of the Gricean Pragmatics. The contents of implicit content need not be propositional (as in Grice and Stalnaker), due to the variety of Pragmatic Stances. So-called Presupposing is characterized precisely via the notions of Steering and Posting.

       In this talk I'll introduce the new Pragmatics, and give a taste (only, due to time constraints) of some of its applications, as mentioned above.