ABSTRACT

Recently, the hypothesis that purely evaluative disputes are metalinguistic negotiations has gained traction. I resist a strong version of that hypothesis, and argue that some of those disputes are not metalinguistic negotiations. To defend that claim, I argue that metalinguistic negotiations have three linguistic properties that some purely evaluative disputes lack. First, in a metalinguistic negotiation it is felicitous to embed the dispute-initial statement under the subjective attitude verb consider; second, a speaker can reply to that initial statement by using a metalinguistic comparative; and, third, such negotiations address metalinguistic questions under discussion. Some purely evaluative disputes lack these properties, which suggests that they are not metalinguistic negotiations.

摘要

最近，纯粹的评价性争论是元语言谈判的假设越来越受欢迎。我反对该假设的强烈版本，并认为其中一些争论不是元语言谈判。为了捍卫这一主张，我认为元语言谈判具有一些纯粹的评价性争论所缺乏的三种语言特性。首先，在元语言谈判中，将争议初始陈述嵌入主观态度动词consider下是恰当的；其次，说话者可以使用元语言比较来回答最初的陈述；第三，这种谈判解决了正在讨论的元语言问题. 一些纯粹的评价性争论缺乏这些属性，这表明它们不是元语言谈判。