TY - JOUR
T1 - Conclusions of practical argument
T2 - A speech act analysis
AU - Lewiński, Marcin
N1 - UIDB/00183/2020
UIDP/00183/2020
PY - 2021/5
Y1 - 2021/5
N2 - Conclusions of theoretical reasoning are assertions—or at least speech acts belonging to the class of assertives, such as hypotheses, predictions or estimates. What, however, are the conclusions of practical reasoning? Employing the concepts of speech act theory, in this paper I investigate which speech acts we perform when we’re done with an instance of a practical argument and present its result in a linguistic form. To this end, I first offer a detailed scheme of practical argument suitable for an external pragmatic account (rather than an internal cognitive account). Resorting to actual examples, I then identify a class of action-inducing speech acts as characteristic conclusions of practical argument. I argue that these speech acts—promises, orders, pieces of advice, proposals, and others—differ chiefly depending on the agent of the action induced (me, us, you, them) and their illocutionary strength.
AB - Conclusions of theoretical reasoning are assertions—or at least speech acts belonging to the class of assertives, such as hypotheses, predictions or estimates. What, however, are the conclusions of practical reasoning? Employing the concepts of speech act theory, in this paper I investigate which speech acts we perform when we’re done with an instance of a practical argument and present its result in a linguistic form. To this end, I first offer a detailed scheme of practical argument suitable for an external pragmatic account (rather than an internal cognitive account). Resorting to actual examples, I then identify a class of action-inducing speech acts as characteristic conclusions of practical argument. I argue that these speech acts—promises, orders, pieces of advice, proposals, and others—differ chiefly depending on the agent of the action induced (me, us, you, them) and their illocutionary strength.
KW - Illocution
KW - Practical argument
KW - Practical reasoning
KW - Speech acts
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85108446685&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000659173800007
U2 - 10.31577/orgf.2021.28207
DO - 10.31577/orgf.2021.28207
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85108446685
SN - 1335-0668
VL - 28
SP - 420
EP - 457
JO - Organon F
JF - Organon F
IS - 2
ER -