Translation as a Test for the Explicit-Implicit Distinction

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_10990
dc.title	Translation as a Test for the Explicit-Implicit Distinction
dc.contributor.author	Ervas Francesca
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Articolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/the-journal-for-the-philosophy-of-language-mind-an/2022/2/translation-as-a-test-for-the-explicit-implicit-di/
dc.description.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.
dc.relation.ispartof	JoLMA
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 3 \| Num. 2 \| Dicembre 2022
dc.issued	2022-12-20
dc.dateAccepted	2022-12-08
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-11-02
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2723-9640
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2022/02/006
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Ambiguity
dc.subject	Definite Descriptions
dc.subject	Explicatures
dc.subject	Implicatures
dc.subject	Kripke
dc.subject	Lexical Pragmatics
dc.subject	Translation

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Francesca Ervas Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italia

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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.

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20 Dicembre 2022

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08 Dicembre 2022

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02 Novembre 2022

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Keywords: Implicatures • Kripke • Definite Descriptions • Ambiguity • Lexical Pragmatics • Translation • Explicatures

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