Linguistic explanation
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Explanations, theories, and some basic metascience
- 3.From discovery to argument
- 4.Linguistic explanation and pragmatic explanation
- 4.1Formal linguistics and the privileged view
- 4.2Pragmatics and functional explanations
- 4.3The explanatory history of communicative competence
- 4.4Some examples of pragmatic explanation
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Notes
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