Thruthconditional Character of the Utterance - the Semantic Default and Post-Semantic Pragmatics
Thruthconditional Character of the Utterance – the Semantic Default and Post-Semantic Pragmatics

Summary/Abstract: The research objective for the present article is to explore the landscape of theories related to the semantic vericonditional aspect, which is a basic feature of the utterance. Collecting the theoretical kit in order to aggregate the relevant conceptual framework will allow us to operationalize and apply them in the architecture of the theoretical interpretative process as well as in the analysis of the subject of interest: parliamentary discourse - a subspecies of political discourse. The given investigation proceeds from the establishment of a conceptual framework, a delimitation of the distinctions between semantics and pragmatics, the complex phrase being the fundamental unit of syntax and formal semantics with vericonditional compositional content that needs to be saturated with meaning - the default interpretation. The utterance, the unit of discourse mobilizes all contextual information, resolves the ambiguities of lexical semantics - disambiguates the elements with the scalar palette of meaning - generalized common ground implicature but also arising from the context taking into account the principle of consistency and relevance. The level of postpragmatic, particularized implicature are subjects of preferred interpretation and do not depend on the content of the concrete utterance in context. In the case study examples, they concern loyalty to the homeland, ideology and party affiliation, dismantling right-wing extremist-radicalist tendencies, hack-ing the anti-Semitic concept and using the term as a weapon for different situations and contexts. The article is informed by several evolved key works on pragmatist theories including formal semantic minimalism theory, semantic underdetermination theory, cognitivist relevance theory, scalarity of meaning theory, and factorization theory. All of these theories bring their contribution to the theoretical understanding and pragmatic analysis of sophisticated public discourse.

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