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Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy

Part 1 From Theory to Practice

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Editors:
  1. Alessandro Capone

    1. Department of Cognitive Science, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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  2. Marco Carapezza

    1. Dip. Scienze Umanistiche, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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  3. Franco Lo Piparo

    1. University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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  • Offers original research by leading authorities in the fields of pragmatics and philosophy of language
  • Demonstrates the interconnectivity between philosophy of language and pragmatics, and shows how advances in the one field will trigger advances in the other
  • Covers theoretical and applied approaches to topics in the study of language

Part of the book series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology (PEPRPHPS, volume 18)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Theoretical approaches to philosophy of language

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Semantically Empty Gestures

      • Nathan Salmon
      Pages 3-24

    3. Aboutness and Quantifying Into Intensional Contexts: A Pragmatic Topic/Comment Analysis of Propositional Attitude Statements

      • Jay David Atlas
      Pages 25-43

    4. Sub-Sententials: Pragmatics or Semantics?

      • Michael Devitt
      Pages 45-64

    5. An Investigation of a Gricean Account of Free-Choice or

      • Graeme Forbes
      Pages 65-79

    6. Negation as a window on the non-sequential nature of language interpretation and processing

      • Denis Delfitto
      Pages 81-95

    7. Embedding explicatures in implicit indirect reports: simple sentences, and substitution failure cases

      • Alessandro Capone
      Pages 97-136

    8. How Demonstrative Complex Pictorial Reference Grounds Contextualism

      • Alberto Voltolini
      Pages 137-149

  3. Pragmatics in discourse

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. Discourse, sentence grammar and the left periphery of the clause

      • Alessandra Giorgi
      Pages 153-175

    3. Getting a grip on context as a determinant of meaning

      • Keith Allan
      Pages 177-201

    4. Theory meets Practice – H. Paul Grice’s Maxims of Quality and Manner and the Trobriand Islanders’ language use

      • Gunter Senft
      Pages 203-220

    5. ABDUCTIVE INFERENCES IN PRAGMATIC PROCESSES

      • Marco Carapezza, Valentina Cuccio
      Pages 221-242

    6. Coordinating Meaning: Common Knowledge and Coordination in Speaker Meaning

      • Richard Warner
      Pages 243-258

    7. Dworkin’s “Semantic Sting” and Behavioral Pragmatics

      • Brian E. Butler
      Pages 259-273

    8. Stories and the transmission of knowledge: Narrative, evidence, credibility and epistemic vigilance

      • Neal R. Norrick
      Pages 275-299
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About this book

This book builds on the idea that pragmatics and philosophy are strictly interconnected and that advances in one area will generate consequential advantages in the other area. The first part of the book, entitled ‘Theoretical Approaches to Philosophy of Language’, contains contributions by philosophers of language on connectives, intensional contexts, demonstratives, subsententials, and implicit indirect reports. The second part, ‘Pragmatics in Discourse’, presents contributions that are more empirically based or of a more applicative nature and that deal with the pragmatics of discourse, argumentation, pragmatics and law, and context.

The book presents perspectives which, generally, make most of the Gricean idea of the centrality of a speaker’s intention in attribution of meaning to utterances, whether one is interested in the level of sentence-like units or larger chunks of discourse. 

Reviews

“In this exciting and challenging contribution, we find ourselves at the front-line of topical issues at the intersection of semantics and pragmatics: the contribution addresses classical ‘Gricean’ puzzles as well as more contemporary issues that upset the boundaries between linguistic meaning, truth, language use, and the broader aspects of discourse. The volume brings together a host of timely language research that contributes to classical debates, while opening up new avenues of exploration from a theoretical and practical vantage, respectively. The contribution is a beneficial read for philosophers of language, linguists as well as the wider community of language researchers.” (Chris Genovesi, Carleton University, USA)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Cognitive Science, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

    Alessandro Capone

  • Dip. Scienze Umanistiche, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

    Marco Carapezza

  • University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

    Franco Lo Piparo

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy

  • Book Subtitle: Part 1 From Theory to Practice

  • Editors: Alessandro Capone, Marco Carapezza, Franco Lo Piparo

  • Series Title: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72173-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72172-9Published: 25 January 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89152-1Published: 04 June 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72173-6Published: 18 January 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2214-3807

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-3815

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 299

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Pragmatics, Philosophy of Language, Cognitive Linguistics

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