Spicy, tall, and metalinguistic negotiations

Abstract In this paper I argue that metalinguistic negotiations are not as common David Plunkett and Timothy Sundell assume. They make two related controversial claims: the claim speakers don’t know what they say directly communicate contents. These claims generate challenges metalinguistic-negotiation view should meet. Firstly, it clarify why oblivious to saying communicating, secondly, explain mechanism transforms seems like a typical object-language disagreement into dispute. way in which meet these is unsatisfactory. Regarding their answer first challenge, I’ll theoretical cost of postulating massive semantic pragmatic blindness otherwise competent too high. relation second contents can only be conveyed when uttering apparently contradicting using terms with different meanings. If my arguments correct, then certainly ubiquitous.