AESTHETICIZING PRAGMATICS The Gamut of Pragmatics Pragmatics emerged among the sciences of language at the end of the 1960s in reaction to certain totalizing models in linguistics: structuralism (primarily in Europe) and generative grammar (initially in the United States). Certain disciples of Chomsky became dissatisfied with autonoshy; mous syntax and later with generative semantics: they decided to break away from their mentor. Whereas Chomsky continued to talk a lot about very little; they defied him by speaking very suggestively about an excesshy; sively broad range of phenomena. Pragmatics -which Bar-Hillel considshy; ered as a wastebasket discipline in the fifties - nevertheless gained respectability. The history of pragmatics spans; of course; much more than three decades. The Stoic conception of language; in the shadow of the great Greek tradition and therefore intensely subversive; had in fact a pragmatic aim. The term pragmatisch appears in Kant: it expresses a relation with a human goal; this goal being only determinable within a community. This characterization naturally inspires the pragmaticism of l the Neo-Kantian Charles Sanders Peirce . It is this Kant-Peirce lineage that led to Morris and Carnaps rather bland conceptions of pragmatics; after the heavy losses incurred by positivism and behaviorism. In any case; despite the constant presence of a pragmatic approach in the history of thought; this reassessment of pragmatics (against the triumphs proclaimed by structuralism and generativism) was experienced as a Significant breakshy; through. A whole range of pragmatics came to the attention of linguists.
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