Journal | JoLMA
Monographic journal issue | 3 | 2 | 2022
Research Article | Translation as a Test for the Explicit-Implicit Distinction
Translation as a Test for the Explicit-Implicit Distinction
Abstract
The paper will first present Kripke’s “translation test” to identify any semantic ambiguity and his claim, against Donnellan, that we should not expect to disambiguate the referential vs. attributive uses of definite descriptions via translation into another language. Second, the paper will discuss a strengthened version of Kripke’s “translation test” proposed by Voltolini to distinguish between any semantic vs. pragmatic phenomena. Finally, the paper will show that translation cannot work as a test for the semantic/pragmatic distinction, but can rather work as a test for the explicit/implicit distinction.
Submitted: Nov. 2, 2022 | Accepted: Dec. 8, 2022 | Published Dec. 20, 2022 | Language: en
Keywords Definite Descriptions • Ambiguity • Implicatures • Translation • Lexical Pragmatics • Explicatures • Kripke
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Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2022/02/006
