Abstract
The paper offers such description of some imperative-like sentence types in potential well-formed Hungarian utterances which includes a parallel representation of the linguistically encoded intensional profiles of the sentence types and actual information states in potential interlocutors’ minds. In our representational dynamic pragmasemantics framework ReALIS, we demonstrate the intensional profiles of the five basic and two “fine-tuned” sentence types as members of a system enabling addressers’ of utterances to express their beliefs, desires and intentions concerning the propositional content of the given utterances as well as the addressees’ and other people’s certain beliefs, desires and intentions (concerning the propositional content, too, or each other’s thoughts). We also provide “case studies” in which actual beliefs, desires and intentions in potential interlocutors’ minds are compared to the linguistically encoded intensional profiles of Hungarian imperative-like sentence types. In this context, the listener’s task is to calculate the speaker’s intentions (and hidden motives) on the basis of the mismatches that this comparison reveals. The paper concludes with an insight into our attempts to model the mind of individuals living with Autism Spectrum Disorder. This latter subproject is relevant since our framework provides solutions to pragmaticosemantic phenomena “at the cost” of undertaking the complex task of actually representing the structure of the human mind itself – which is not impossible but requires an adequate decision of the level of abstraction and the components to be used.
Highlights
This paper is part of a series of papers in which we describe in our discourse-semantic framework ReALIS1 the intensional profiles of the basic (Hungarian) sentence types and those of sentence types modified by peculiar stress patterns, discourse particles and what are referred to in Leiss (2014: 50) as ATMM-categories
Let us keep on considering the utterance presented in (6a') in section 3 but consider potential speakers and listeners who do not fit the “description” given in the six axioms that the corresponding intensional profile consists of, or whose knowledge does not suit the real world
We argue for the following thesis: individuals living with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) demonstrate a reduced system of worldlet structure to a milder or greater extent, even up to the absolute lack of this structure of worldlets
Summary
This paper is part of a series of papers in which we describe in our discourse-semantic framework ReALIS1 the intensional profiles of the basic (Hungarian) sentence types and those of sentence types modified by peculiar stress patterns, discourse particles and what are referred to in Leiss (2014: 50) as ATMM-categories ReALIS: the theory which offers the same kind of formal representation for linguistically encoded expositive speech acts and for actual beliefs, desires, intentions and other kinds of fictions in potential interlocutors’ minds It was the task of other papers to enumerate arguments for ReALIS and against the “Kripke/Montague-inspired possible-worlds semantics,” as this latter is referred to by Pollard. In ReALIS, the (pragmatic) generalization of pattern-matching-based interpretational calculus, referred to, is possible It is the discourse representation of utterances that is carried out by means of Kamp’s well-known partially ordered “boxes of information” and information states of human minds are represented in this way, on the basis of the principle of lifelongness, according to which the human mind, permanently fed by discourses, can be modeled as a gigantic discourse representation structure (Alberti 2000).
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