U-PRAGMATICS AND E-PRAGMATICS: MAKING A CASE FOR I-PRAGMATICS
Keywords:
social, cognitive, pragmatics, relevance, Universal Grammar, E-Language, I-Language, competenceAbstract
This article presents an argument which shows that there is a natural point of contact between the social-descriptive and the cognitivepsychological relevance-theoretic approaches to communication. The argument is based on an analogy between the concepts of Universal Grammar, E-Language and I-Language, developed within generative linguistics, and the relevance-theoretic model of the cognitive mechanisms and psychological processes of human communication and cognition. I make a case for identifying and investigating culturespecific pragmatic competence in cognitive, relevance-theoretic terms and I try to show how this proposal provides a principled basis for a cognitive psychological concept of pragmatic competence which could be termed I-Pragmatics and which is the natural point of contact between the universal mechanisms of communication and other cognitive domains, including the social ability module.
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