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Deranging the Mental Lexicon

机译:整理心理词典

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This paper offers a defense of Davidson's conclusion in A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs', focusing on the psychology and epistemology of language. Drawing on empirical studies in language acquisition and sociolinguistics, I problematize the traditional idealizing assumption that a person's mental lexicon consists of two distinct partsa dictionary, comprising her knowledge of word meanings proper, and an encyclopedia, comprising her wider knowledge of worldly affairs. I argue that the breakdown of the dictionary-encyclopedia distinction can be given a cognitive and functional explanation: facts regarding language learning and the challenges of coping with linguistically diverse environments require that dictionary and encyclopedia remain deeply integrated rather than categorically distinct dimensions of the mental lexicon. This argument provides support for a psychologized version of Davidson's conclusion in Derangement': there is no such thing as a language, in the sense that there is no diachronically stable and uniquely specifiable object that could constitute the language which a person knows. I then apply this conclusion to the question of whether the concept of a public languageunderstood as a more or less stable body of conventions shared by a group of speakerscould nonetheless retain an important explanatory role in philosophy of language and linguistics.
机译:本文为戴维森在《墓志铭》中的结论辩护,重点是语言的心理学和认识论。通过对语言习得和社会语言学的经验研究,我对一个传统的理想化假设提出了质疑,即一个人的心理词典由两个不同的部分组成,一个字典包括她对词义的理解,一个百科全书,包括她对世俗事物的广泛了解。我认为,字典-百科全书之间的区别可以用认知和功能上的解释来解释:有关语言学习和应对语言多样环境的挑战的事实要求字典和百科全书保持深度整合,而不是心理词典的分类维度。这一论点为戴维森的《离奇的结论》的心理化版本提供了支持:在某种意义上,不存在语言之类的东西,因为在某种意义上,不存在可以构成一个人所知道的语言的历时稳定且唯一可指定的对象。然后,我将这个结论应用于一个问题,即作为一组发言者所共有的公约,公共语言的概念是否被理解为或多或少的稳定体系,仍然可以在语言和语言学哲学中保留重要的解释性作用。

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    《Inquiry》 |2016年第2期|33-55|共23页
  • 作者

    Begby Endre;

  • 作者单位

    Simon Fraser Univ, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada;

  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);
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