RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Graci, Roberto YR 2023 T1 On the nature of pragmatic constituents: Considerations on the semantics/pragmatics debate JF Pragmatics and Society VO 14 IS 1 SP 170 OP 184 DO https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.21001.gra PB John Benjamins SN 1878-9714, AB Abstract

The present article focuses on certain points in the semantics/pragmatics debate. Among these, one of the most interesting is the possibility of reconciling, independent of the context, certain aspects of meaning which have always been the subject of discussion in formal semantics, with the view that meaning is socially and situationally conditioned. Recent new insights concerning the importance of pragmatics for enriching the propositional content of the utterance should not lead to a radical contextualism that denies the assignment of any role at all to semantics. Instead, it is possible to argue that both dimensions, semantics and pragmatics, along with their constituent parts, offer fundamental contributions to the transmission and understanding of the overall meaning of a (spoken or written) text., UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/ps.21001.gra