{"id":"https://openalex.org/W2184734431","doi":null,"title":"The Cat in the Act or: Rudolf Carnap, a stepfather of pragmatics?","display_name":"The Cat in the Act or: Rudolf Carnap, a stepfather of pragmatics?","publication_year":2011,"publication_date":"2011-01-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W2184734431","mag":"2184734431"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"mag:2184734431","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"http://www.postkolonial.dk/files/KULT%209/65-78%20Mey.pdf","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":null,"is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":null},"volume":null,"type":"article","is_traditional":true,"indexed_in":[],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5025051800","display_name":"Jacob L. Mey","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0116-4149","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0116-4149"]},"institutions":[],"countries":[],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Jacob L. Mey","raw_affiliation_strings":[],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0116-4149","affiliations":[]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":0,"institutions_distinct_count":0,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5025051800"],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":0.0,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":0,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.0,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":null,"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":null,"last_page":null},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10034","display_name":"Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation","score":0.8428000211715698,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1203","display_name":"Language and Linguistics"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10034","display_name":"Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation","score":0.8428000211715698,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1203","display_name":"Language and Linguistics"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13558","display_name":"Logic and Philosophy of Science","score":0.07079999893903732,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1207","display_name":"History and Philosophy of Science"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13156","display_name":"Historical Linguistics and Language Studies","score":0.01810000091791153,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1203","display_name":"Language and Linguistics"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/rudolf-carnap","display_name":"Rudolf Carnap","score":0.847000002861023},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/semantics-pragmatics-interface","display_name":"semantics-pragmatics interface","score":0.9729999899864197},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/pragmatics","display_name":"pragmatics","score":0.6869999766349792},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/semantics","display_name":"semantics","score":0.4699999988079071},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/indirect-speech-acts","display_name":"indirect speech acts","score":0.6869999766349792},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/speech-acts","display_name":"speech acts","score":0.6970000267028809},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/history-of-pragmatics","display_name":"history of pragmatics","score":0.8199999928474426},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/contextual-constraints","display_name":"contextual constraints","score":0.39500001072883606}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C11693617","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181839","display_name":"Pragmatics","level":2,"score":0.9091880321502686},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41895202","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8162","display_name":"Linguistics","level":1,"score":0.5988880395889282},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C184337299","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1437428","display_name":"Semantics (computer science)","level":2,"score":0.5727292895317078},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C12713177","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1900281","display_name":"Perspective (graphical)","level":2,"score":0.5483031868934631},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C136815107","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q154242","display_name":"Nothing","level":2,"score":0.49625855684280396},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C28719098","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44946","display_name":"Point (geometry)","level":2,"score":0.47306525707244873},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2778496695","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254128","display_name":"Dilemma","level":2,"score":0.4230268895626068},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.419842392206192},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138885662","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5891","display_name":"Philosophy","level":0,"score":0.39084339141845703},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111472728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9471","display_name":"Epistemology","level":1,"score":0.32693320512771606},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C33923547","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q395","display_name":"Mathematics","level":0,"score":0.2095889449119568},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C154945302","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11660","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","level":1,"score":0.16489773988723755},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199360897","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9143","display_name":"Programming language","level":1,"score":0.11517482995986938},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2524010","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8087","display_name":"Geometry","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"mag:2184734431","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"http://www.postkolonial.dk/files/KULT%209/65-78%20Mey.pdf","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":null,"is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":null}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":false,"pdf":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":14,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W7511952","https://openalex.org/W609761896","https://openalex.org/W1510650956","https://openalex.org/W1576632330","https://openalex.org/W1590936199","https://openalex.org/W1991691398","https://openalex.org/W1994128890","https://openalex.org/W2023755086","https://openalex.org/W2069844749","https://openalex.org/W2075776001","https://openalex.org/W2130041324","https://openalex.org/W2798598542","https://openalex.org/W3126679965","https://openalex.org/W4234494399"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W2565226446","https://openalex.org/W7112927782","https://openalex.org/W2060290036","https://openalex.org/W6987998867","https://openalex.org/W4239925968","https://openalex.org/W572191161","https://openalex.org/W3123467818","https://openalex.org/W7096519395","https://openalex.org/W1885241896","https://openalex.org/W2545554014"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"This":[0],"paper":[1],"deals":[2],"with":[3,123],"the":[4,17,85,95,106,135,155,173,180,205,221,226,238,243],"interface":[5,169],"between":[6],"semantics":[7,152],"and":[8,36,92,188],"pragmatics":[9,143],"from":[10,34,84,170],"a":[11,29,39,101,133,145,167,196,202],"dual":[12],"perspective,":[13],"as":[14,140],"reflected":[15],"in":[16,79,204,237],"very":[18],"origins":[19],"of":[20,41,71,129,148,158,172,186,228,241],"pragmatic":[21],"research.":[22],"Two":[23],"main":[24],"approaches":[25],"can":[26,60,137],"be":[27,48,62,138],"distinguished:":[28],"\u2018centrifugal\u2019":[30],"one,":[31],"which":[32],"starts":[33,82],"semantics,":[35],"arrives":[37],"at":[38],"\u2018point":[40],"no":[42],"return\u2019,":[43],"where":[44],"certain":[45],"questions":[46],"cannot":[47,163],"resolved":[49],"by":[50],"appealing":[51],"to":[52,108,120,215,220,234],"what":[53,94],"already":[54],"has":[55],"been":[56],"assumed":[57],"true,":[58],"nor":[59],"they":[61],"expanded":[63],"further":[64],"without":[65],"crossing":[66],"some":[67],"boundary.":[68],"(The":[69,127],"problem":[70,128],"Lakoff\u2019s":[72],"cat).":[73],"The":[74],"other":[75],"approach":[76],"is":[77,111,151,201],"\u2018centripetal\u2019,":[78],"that":[80,217],"it":[81,211],"out":[83],"contextual":[86],"constraints":[87],"surrounding":[88],"human":[89],"linguistic":[90,109],"activity,":[91],"asks":[93],"conditions":[96],"are":[97],"for":[98,166],"performing,":[99],"say,":[100],"successful":[102],"speech":[103,125],"act.":[104],"Here,":[105],"boundary":[107],"reality":[110],"reached":[112],"when":[113],"we":[114,162,177],"meet":[115],"problems":[116],"such":[117],"as:":[118],"how":[119],"deal":[121],"linguistically":[122],"indirect":[124],"acting.":[126],"Searle\u2019s":[130],"act).":[131],"In":[132],"nutshell,":[134],"question":[136],"formulated":[139],"follows:":[141],"Is":[142],"just":[144,178],"necessary":[146],"extension":[147],"semantics?":[149],"Or":[150],"nothing":[153],"but":[154],"intensional":[156],"complement":[157],"pragmatics?":[159],"Alternatively,":[160],"if":[161],"claim":[164],"support":[165],"true":[168],"any":[171],"opposing":[174],"factions,":[175],"should":[176],"let":[179],"matter":[181],"rest,":[182],"protect":[183],"our":[184],"lines":[185],"defense,":[187],"avoid":[189],"an":[190,218],"open":[191],"confrontation?":[192],"(Or,":[193],"avec":[194],"hommage":[195],"Dr":[197],"Seuss:":[198],"If":[199],"there":[200],"cat":[203],"act,":[206],"then":[207],"please":[208],"don\u2019t":[209],"wake":[210],"up!)":[212],"I":[213,223],"hope":[214],"show":[216],"appeal":[219],"man":[222],"have":[224],"called":[225],"\u2018stepfather":[227],"pragmatics\u2019,":[229],"Rudolf":[230],"Carnap,":[231],"may":[232],"serve":[233],"point":[235],"us":[236],"right":[239],"direction":[240],"solving":[242],"dilemma.":[244]},"counts_by_year":[],"updated_date":"2026-11-04T10:54:05.112534","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}