This article challenges the idea that it is possible to produce a theory of context. Such a theory, it is argued, is unintelligible by virtue of the fact that it leaves us with no prior rational concepts with which to make sense of or understand a theory of context. This argument is developed in relation to the treatment of context in clinical pragmatics. The article examines how clinicians and experimentalists examine pragmatic disorders in children and adults. This examination, it is contended, ends up distorting the notion of context that is integral to utterance (pragmatic) interpretation. It is argued that this distortion arises when we mistakenly believe that we can assume a metaphysical standpoint in our deliberations about context.
2020. Context as a Dynamic Construct and the Problem of Context Sensitivity. Studia Linguistica 74:1 ► pp. 42 ff.
Cummings, Louise
2013. Clinical Pragmatics and Theory of Mind. In Perspectives on Linguistic Pragmatics [Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 2], ► pp. 23 ff.
Cummings, Louise
2015. Theory of mind in utterance interpretation: the case from clinical pragmatics. Frontiers in Psychology 6
Cummings, Louise
2017. Pragmatic Disorders in Forensic Settings. In Pragmatics and Law [Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 10], ► pp. 349 ff.
Cummings, Louise
2017. Cognitive Aspects of Pragmatic Disorders. In Research in Clinical Pragmatics [Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 11], ► pp. 587 ff.
Cummings, Louise
2024. Cognitive Aspects of Pragmatic Disorders. In Philosophy, Cognition and Pragmatics [Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 34], ► pp. 201 ff.
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