Brandom的意义整体论和交流观

Brandom’s Meaning Holism and Communication View

Brandom在Makingit Explicit和其随后的著述中提出的推理作用语义学备受关注。这种语义学被公认为具有全局意义整体论的思想,而意义整体论必然会导致交流困难。对于这个困难,Brandom试图用合作交流模式来解决。本文首先梳理Brandom的推理作用语义学、由其导致的交流困难以及他的解决方案,然后一一考察他的解决方案,进而得出结论:Brandom的合作交流模式没有能够解决意义整体论导致的交流疑难。

Brandom＇ s inferential role semantics, proposed in his book Making it Explicit as well as his subsequent works, becomes a major concern in philosophy of language. It is acknowledged as a global meaning holism which necessarily leads to impossibility of successful communication. To solve this communication problem, Brandom proposes a cooperative model of communication. This paper first tries to present and explain his semantic role semantics, the communication problem caused by his semantics and his solution with the cooperative model of communication, and then examines his solution in a critical way and arrives at the conclu- sion that Brandom fails to solve the communication problem.