Journal of Pragmatics | 2019
A methodological flaw? A reply to Korta and Perry
Abstract
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2018.11.009 0378-2166/© 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Kepa Korta and John Perry (2008), “KP”, are among many authors, including Stephen Levinson (2000), that my paper, “Three Methodological Flaws of Linguistic Pragmatism”, charges with the flaw of confusing the metaphysics of meaning with the epistemology of interpretation (2013b: 287e94). The metaphysics is concerned withwhat constitutes a meaning property of an utterance, the epistemology with how a hearer discovers that property. The meaning is constituted entirely by the speaker in producing the utterance and not by any interpretative process in the hearer.