The Gricean paradigm in pragmatics has recently been attacked for its alleged lack of explanatory import, based on the claim that it does not seek accounts of how utterance interpretation actually works, but merely of how it might work. This article rebuts this line of attack by offering a clear and detailed account of the explanatory project of Gricean pragmatics according to which the latter aims for rationalizing explanations of utterance interpretation. It is shown that, on this view, Gricean pragmatics seeks psychological explanations of utterance interpretation that are “cognitively real” in a perfectly clear and robust sense.

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格莱斯语用学解释项目

语用学中的 Gricean 范式最近因其缺乏解释性而受到攻击，基于声称它不寻求对话语解释实际如何工作的解释，而只是对其可能如何工作的解释。本文通过对 Gricean 语用学的解释项目提供清晰而详细的说明来反驳这一攻击路线，根据该项目，后者旨在使话语解释的解释合理化。结果表明，在这种观点上，格莱斯语用学寻求对话语解释的心理解释，这种解释在完全清晰和稳健的意义上是“认知上真实的”。