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Homophonic Reports and Gradual Communication
Author(s) -
Picazo Claudia
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/papq.12368
Subject(s) - situated , interpreter , utterance , context (archaeology) , interpretation (philosophy) , computer science , linguistics , epistemology , artificial intelligence , philosophy , history , archaeology , programming language
Pragmatic modulation makes contextual information necessary for interpretation. This poses a problem for homophonic reports and inter‐contextual communication in general: of co‐situated interlocutors, we can expect some common ground, but non‐co‐situated interpreters lack access to the context of utterance. Here I argue that we can nonetheless share modulated contents via homophonic reports. First, occasion‐unspecific information is often sufficient for the recovery of modulated content. Second, interpreters can recover what is said with different degrees of accuracy. Homophonic reports and inter‐contextual communication are often successful because the reporting context does not demand full accuracy.