dc.contributor.author | Borge, Steffen | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-13T13:28:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-11-13T13:28:09Z | |
dc.date.created | 2012-12-04T08:48:39Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
dc.identifier.citation | ProtoSociology. 2012, 29 173-191. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1434-4319 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2687847 | |
dc.description.abstract | According to Steven Pinker and his associates the cooperative model of human communication fails, because evolutionary biology teaches us that most social relationships, including talk-exchange, involve combinations of cooperation and conflict. In particular, the phenomenon of the strategic speaker who uses indirect speech in order to be able to deny what he meant by a speech act (deniability of conversational implicatures) challenges the model. In reply I point out that interlocutors can aim at understanding each other (cooperation), while being in conflict. Furthermore, Pinker’s strategic speaker relies on the Cooperative Principle when conveying a conversational implicature, and so non-cooperative behaviour (denial) only emerges as a response to a negative reaction from the audience. It is also doubtful in the cases Pinker presents whether a denial will successfully cancel the conversational implicature – change the audience’s interpretation of speaker’s meaning. I also argue that a strategic speaker might choose indirect speech due to the ignorability of conversational implicatures, in which case the strategic speaker can be highly cooperative. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Gerhard Preyer | en_US |
dc.title | Communication, Cooperation and Conflict | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en_US |
dc.rights.holder | © 2012 Gerhard Preyer | en_US |
dc.source.pagenumber | 173-191 | en_US |
dc.source.volume | 29 | en_US |
dc.source.journal | ProtoSociology | en_US |
dc.identifier.cristin | 967620 | |
dc.relation.project | Norges forskningsråd: 212841 | en_US |
dc.description.localcode | Published by Gerhard Preyer. Locked until 01.01.2221 due to copyright restrictions. | en_US |
cristin.unitcode | 194,62,70,0 | |
cristin.unitname | Institutt for filosofi og religionsvitenskap | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | original | |
cristin.qualitycode | 0 | |