Overview
- The only current volume that highlights indirect reports as an important issue in the philosophy of language
- Offers contributions by eminent philosophers and linguists in an interdisciplinary setting
- Various perspectives on indirect reports and their bearing on the semantics/pragmatics debate
Part of the book series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology (PEPRPHPS, volume 5)
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The (Social) Praxis of Indirect Reports
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Indirect Reports in Philosophy of Language
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Keywords
- argumentation theory
- attribution of modes of presentation
- belief reports
- clinical pragmatics
- communication theory
- connection between reports and quotation
- conversation analysis
- ideo-reflexive ascriptions
- indirectness
- interdisciplinary study of indirect reports
- linguistic pragmatics
- mixed quotation
- reports of 'de se' beliefs
- semantic minimalism vs. radical contextualism
- theoretical linguistics
- weak contextualism
About this book
This volume offers the reader a singular overview of current thinking on indirect reports. The contributors are eminent researchers from the fields of philosophy of language, theoretical linguistics and communication theory, who answer questions on this important issue. This exciting area of controversy has until now mostly been treated from the viewpoint of philosophy. This volume adds the views from semantics, conversation analysis and sociolinguistics.
Authors address matters such as the issue of semantic minimalism vs. radical contextualism, the attribution of responsibility for the modes of presentation associated with Noun Phrases and how to distinguish the indirect reporter’s responsibility from the original speaker’s responsibility. They also explore the connection between indirect reporting and direct quoting. Clearly indirect reporting has some bearing on the semantics/pragmatics debate, however, there is much controversy on “what is said”, whether this is aminimal semantic logical form (enriched by saturating pronominals) or a much richer and fully contextualized logical form. This issue will be discussed from several angles. Many of the authors are contextualists and the discussion brings out the need to take context into account when one deals with indirect reports, both the context of the original utterance and the context of the report. It is interesting to see how rich cues and clues can radically transform the reported message, assigning illocutionary force and how they can be mobilized to distinguish several voices in the utterance. Decoupling the voice of the reporting speaker from that of the reported speaker on the basis of rich contextual clues is an important issue that pragmatic theory has to tackle. Articles on the issue of slurs will bring new light to the issue of decoupling responsibility in indirect reporting, while others are theoretically oriented and deal with deep problems in philosophy and epistemology.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Indirect Reports and Pragmatics
Book Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Studies
Editors: Alessandro Capone, Ferenc Kiefer, Franco Lo Piparo
Series Title: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21395-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-21394-1Published: 08 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79340-5Published: 27 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-21395-8Published: 01 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2214-3807
Series E-ISSN: 2214-3815
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 648
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations
Topics: Semantics, Philosophy of Language, Sociolinguistics, Pragmatism