Indirect Reports and Pragmatics in the World Languages

1. Front Matter

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2. Philosophical approaches

   1. Front Matter

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   2. On the social praxis of indirect reporting

      • Alessandro Capone

      Pages 3-20

   3. Semantics and What is Said

      • Una Stojnic, Ernie Lepore

      Pages 21-38

   4. Immunity to Error through Misidentification and (Direct and Indirect) Experience Reports

      • Denis Delfitto, Anne Reboul, Gaetano Fiorin

      Pages 39-59

   5. Representing Representations: The Priority of the De Re

      • Kenneth A. Taylor

      Pages 61-97

   6. Intuitions and the Semantics of Indirect Discourse

      • Jonathan Berg

      Pages 99-107

   7. Irony as Indirectness Cross-Linguistically: On the Scope of Generic Mechanisms

      • Herbert L. Colston

      Pages 109-131

   8. “When a speaker is reported as having said so”

      • Sanford C. Goldberg

      Pages 133-147

   9. Topics are (implicit) indirect reports

      • Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri

      Pages 149-170

3. Linguistic applications

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Direct and indirect speech revisited: Semantic universals and semantic diversity

      • Cliff Goddard, Anna Wierzbicka

      Pages 173-199

   3. Reporting Conditionals with Modals

      • Magdalena Sztencel, Sarah E. Duffy

      Pages 201-226

   4. Pronominals and presuppositions in that-clauses of indirect reports

      • Alessandro Capone, Alessandra Falzone, Paola Pennisi

      Pages 227-242

   5. Discourse Markers in Different Types of Reporting

      • Péter Furkó, András Kertész, Ágnes Abuczki

      Pages 243-276

   6. Indirect reports in Modern Eastern Armenian

      • Alessandra Giorgi, Sona Haroutyunian

      Pages 277-298

   7. Relinquishing Control: What Romanian De Se Attitude Reports Teach Us About Immunity To Error Through Misidentification

      • Marina Folescu

      Pages 299-313

   8. Accuracy in reported speech: Evidence from masculine and feminine Japanese language

      • Hiroko Itakura

      Pages 315-331

   9. The Grammaticalization of Indirect Reports: The Cantonese Discourse Particle wo5

      • John C. Wakefield, Hung Yuk Lee

      Pages 333-344

   10. Context-shift in Indirect Reports in Dhaasanac

       • Sumiyo Nishiguchi

       Pages 345-354

This volume addresses the intriguing issue of indirect reports from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributors include philosophers, theoretical linguists, socio-pragmaticians, and cognitive scientists. The book is divided into four sections following the provenance of the authors. Combining the voices from leading and emerging authors in the field, it offers a detailed picture of indirect reports in the world’s languages and their significance for theoretical linguistics. Building on the previous book on indirect reports in this series, this volume adds an empirical and cross-linguistic approach that covers an impressive range of languages, such as Cantonese, Japanese, Hebrew, Persian, Dutch, Spanish, Catalan, Armenian, Italian, English, Hungarian, German, Rumanian, and Basque.

• Indirect reports and pragmatics
• Propositional attitudes
• Contextualism and indirect reporting
• Quotational constructions
• Intuitions and the semantics of indirect discourse
• Romanian De Se attitude reports
• Context-shift in indirect reports in Dhaasanac
• Tense and stative predicates

• Department of Cognitive Science, University of Messina, Barcellona PG ME, Italy

  Alessandro Capone

• Departament Lògica, Porta 404, 4th Fl, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

  Manuel García-Carpintero

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

  Alessandra Falzone

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