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Reassessing the conceptual–procedural distinction

Wilson, D; (2016) Reassessing the conceptual–procedural distinction. Lingua , 175/6 pp. 5-19. 10.1016/j.lingua.2015.12.005. Green open access

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Abstract

My aim in this paper is to reassess the conceptual–procedural distinction as drawn in relevance theory in the light of almost thirty years of research. In Section 1, I make some comparisons between approaches to semantics based on a conceptual–procedural distinction and those based on a distinction between truth conditions and conditions for appropriate use. In Section 2, I present a brief history of the conceptual–procedural distinction as drawn in relevance theory. In Section 3, I consider the nature of procedural encoding and discuss whether it is best seen as semantic or pragmatic. In Section 4, I outline some parallels and differences between procedural and use-conditional accounts of interjections. In Section 5, I discuss the implications of the conceptual–procedural distinction for lexical pragmatics and consider some recent proposals about how it might be extended. In Section 6, I reassess the conceptual–procedural distinction in the light of current evolutionary approaches to cognition and point out some future directions for research.

Type: Article
Title: Reassessing the conceptual–procedural distinction
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2015.12.005
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2015.12.005
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Discourse connectives; Interjections; Grammaticalization; Lexical pragmatics; Modularity
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Linguistics
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1475748
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