Performative uses and the temporal interpretation of modals
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Expressions with a modal semantics vary with respect to whether they are suited to ‘performative uses’. Modals like must and have to can easily be used to give a command and hence create an obligation, but the same does not seem to be true for predicates like be obligated to and be under an obligation to. This fact poses a challenge for an otherwise attractive class of analyses that take the ‘performative effect’ (i.e., the creation of an obligation) to arise pragmatically from a claim made with the usual, descriptive modal semantics. Seeing as the different modals are typically assigned the same truth-conditional content, a pragmatic account predicts that there should not be a difference in the availability of performative uses.
In this paper, I will explore possible avenues for meeting this challenge while preserving the attractive features of a pragmatic account. My starting point will be the observation that certain commonly-made assumptions about temporal interpretation in fact block a pragmatic derivation of the performative effect. Then I will consider how this conclusion can be avoided for modals that have performative uses. We either have to assume that these modals have a more liberal temporal interpretation or that the performative effect arises in a different manner than assumed by existing accounts. Quite independently from the issue of anti-performativity, this paper demonstrates that two seemingly independent phenomena—temporal interpretation and performative uses of modals—are in fact intertwined, hence we can shed light on one by studying the other.
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LAUER, Sven, 2015. Performative uses and the temporal interpretation of modals. 20th Amsterdam Colloquium 2015. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 16. Dez. 2015 - 18. Dez. 2015. In: BROCHHAGEN, Thomas, ed., Floris ROELOFSEN, ed., Nadine THEILER, ed.. Proceedings of the 20th Amsterdam Colloquium. Amsterdam, 2015, pp. 217-226BibTex
@inproceedings{Lauer2015Perfo-33078, year={2015}, title={Performative uses and the temporal interpretation of modals}, url={http://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/mVkOTk2N/AC2015-proceedings.pdf}, address={Amsterdam}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th Amsterdam Colloquium}, pages={217--226}, editor={Brochhagen, Thomas and Roelofsen, Floris and Theiler, Nadine}, author={Lauer, Sven} }
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