Title: Quotative \u2018Be Like\u2019
\n(joint work with Andreas Stokke (Uppsala))
\nAbstract:\u00a0 There are a variety of familiar ways of talking about our mental states and speech acts, such as direct discourse (as in, ‘Ellen said, \u201cI’m leaving now!\u201d\u2019), indirect discourse (as in, \u2018Ellen thought that she would leave\u2019). DD and ID continue to raise difficult philosophical and linguistic issues; but if they are still not fully understood, that is not for lack of trying: there are thousands of philosophical papers about belief and belief ascription, and hundreds or thousands about other attitudes: desire, knowledge, thinking, and so on.\u00a0 By contrast, one common way we characterise our own mental states and speech acts has entirely escaped philosophical attention: quotative ‘be like\u2019 or QBL (as in, ‘Ellen was like \u201cI’m leaving now!\u201d\u2019). We argue that neglect of QBL has resulted in a significant gap in our understanding of our own minds and our ways of talking about them.\u00a0 QBL is interesting because it is very common \u2014 corpus studies reveal that it is more common than \u2018says\u2019 or \u2018thinks\u2019 in many dialects of English, and related constructions are common in other languages as well \u2014 and because (as we show) QBL functions very differently to DD and ID, and in particular is not reducible to \u2019says\u2019 or \u2019thinks\u2019 ascriptions.\u00a0 Showing that QBL is distinctive in this respect is the first aim of this paper; a second aim is to map out some of the space of theoretical options for explaining QBL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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