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Exploring Contextualism and Performativity

The Environment Matters

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Editors:
  1. Alessandro Capone

    1. COSPECS, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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  2. Assunta Penna

    1. COSPECS, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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  • Deals with contextualism and performativity from a novel perspective
  • Contains contributions from the fields of linguistics, cognitive science and socio-pragmatics
  • Tackles such contextual matters as hyperbole, reference and argumentation

Part of the book series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology (PEPRPHPS, volume 30)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Pragmalinguistics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Reference in Context

      • Alessandro Capone
      Pages 3-23

    3. For a Definition of Hyperbola on the Scene of Ancient Greek Theater: Situations and Lexicon

      • Paola Radici Colace
      Pages 25-40

    4. Synonymy and Contextual Dependence

      • Grazia Basile
      Pages 41-54

  3. Performativity and Social Pragmatics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. Genre as a Context for Persuasion: The Construction of Identities in Different Forms of Institutionalised Discourse. A Case Study

      • Francesca Santulli
      Pages 57-83

    3. Pragmatics, Metaphor Studies and the Challenge of Mental Imagery

      • Stefana Garello, Marco Carapezza
      Pages 85-103

    4. Material Engagement and Mediation: Two Necessary Concepts

      • Francesco Parisi
      Pages 105-114

    5. Silence as a Meaning Framework

      • Antonia Cava
      Pages 115-125

    6. Schtroumpf: Forms of Life and Forms of Talk

      • Assunta Penna
      Pages 127-137
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About this book

This edited volume on contextualism and pragmatics is interdisciplinary in character and contains contributions from linguistics, cognitive science and socio-pragmatics. Going beyond conventional contextual matters of truth-conditions and pragmatic intrusion, this text deals with a variety of issues including hyperbole, synonymy, reference, argumentation, schizophrenia, rationality, morality, silence and clinical pragmatics. Contributions also address the semantics/pragmatics debate and show to what extent the theory of contextualism can be applied.  This volume is based on a unitary research project financed by the University of Messina and appeals to students and researchers working in linguistics and the philosophy of language. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • COSPECS, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

    Alessandro Capone, Assunta Penna

About the editors

Alessandro Capone has a Doctorate in linguistics (University of Oxford) and a doctorate in philosophy of language (University of Palermo). He is full professor of linguistics. He is also a series editor for Springer, an editor for Intercultural Pragmatics, author of five monographs and three books of poems, editor of 16 international volumes, and author of papers published in top international journals. He is a board member of numerous international journals



Assunta Penna is Ph.D in Cognitive Sciences (University of Messina). Among her main research interests are: media languages, digitalization of public administrations; women and the media; Internet Studies. She has written a number of research papers.




Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Exploring Contextualism and Performativity

  • Book Subtitle: The Environment Matters

  • Editors: Alessandro Capone, Assunta Penna

  • Series Title: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12543-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12542-3Published: 16 December 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12545-4Published: 16 December 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-12543-0Published: 15 December 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2214-3807

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-3815

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 243

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics

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