전체 투사문제와 맥락

• 발행기관: 호서대학교 사회과학연구소
• 저자명: 김창익
• 간행물 정보: 『사회과학연구』제16집 제1호, 203~223쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 행정학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 1997.12.31

영문 초록

The purpose of this paper is to show that context plays an important role in solving the projection problem of presuppositions. The projection problem concerns the manner in which the presupposition of a complex sentence is determined compositionally from the presuppositions of its parts. There can be two kinds of approaches to the projection problem: one is a semantic approach, and the other a pragmatic one. Karttunen & Peters (1979) is a typical semantic study, whereas Gazdar (1979) is a typical pragmatic study. In Section II we compare the theory of Karttunen & Peters with that of Gazdar. Three differences are found. First, there are differences in the methods of description. Karttunen & Peters describe the projection of presuppositions simply, using three kinds of information from a lexical item, but Gazdar explains the loss and survival of presuppositions in terms of the constituent sentences, using only two kinds of information and a general conversational principle. Secondly, there are different predictions on presuppositional projection respectively. Karttunen & Peters make the prediction of presupposition conforming to the intuitional judgement, but Gazdar gives the opposite prediction, which has the merit of being able to explain the projections of more complex sentences without any diffculties. Thirdly, there is a difference in the linguistic level to which they can apply their own theories. It is possible for Karttunen &Peters to apply their theory above and under the sentence level, but it is not possible for Gazdar to do so. Gazdar can apply his theory only at the sentence level. Section Three deals with the role of context in presupposition. As mentioned above, Gazdar develops his theory with special reference to sentence-level or proposition-level, which is connected with the conception of context. Some logicians says that context is a set of propositions or just a proposition. Given this, we show the inseparablity of context to the definition of pragmatic presupposition and the important role of context in explaining the defeasibility of presupposition which is its characteristic feature. Finally, in Section IV we explain how such context can be exploited in the treatment of the projection problem of presuppositions. We suggest that we could transform the heritage property into the stipulation expressed with the term of context along with the admittance condition, which was to hold the relation between context and sentence. The admittance condition makes it possible for us to reshape the presuppositional relation and to explain the prediction of the projection problem of presuppositions. In the course of our discussion, we introduce the concept of context change potential, which will function as a property of the truth-conditional content as well as the presuppositional property of a lexical item.

목차

Ⅰ. 서론

Ⅱ. 전제 투사문제에 관한 두 이론 비교

Ⅲ. 맥락의 역할

Ⅳ. 전제 투사문제와 맥락변화 잠재성

Ⅴ. 결론

참고문헌

Abstract