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Perspectives on Pragmatics and Philosophy

  • Offers a complete overview of instances where pragmatics adds mettle to philosophical enquiry
  • Stabilises the boundaries of pragmatics, in relation to philosophy and linguistics
  • Presents the argument of well known scholars who believe that pragmatics can be an indispensible tool for resolving philosophical problems

Part of the book series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology (PEPRPHPS, volume 1)

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxi
  2. Conversation and Collective Belief

    • Margaret Gilbert, Maura Priest
    Pages 1-34
  3. The Single Norm of Assertion

    • Martin Montminy
    Pages 35-52
  4. From Thought Experiments to Real Experiments in Pragmatics

    • András Kertész, Ferenc Kiefer
    Pages 53-86
  5. What Makes a Property “Semantic”?

    • Michael Devitt
    Pages 87-112
  6. What is a Context?

    • Steven Gross
    Pages 113-132
  7. Implicature, Inference and Cancellability

    • Michael Haugh
    Pages 133-151
  8. Grice, Conversational Implicature and Philosophy

    • Siobhan Chapman
    Pages 153-188
  9. Writing Letters in the Age of Grice

    • Claudia Bianchi
    Pages 189-201
  10. Implicatures as Forms of Argument

    • Fabrizio Macagno, Douglas Walton
    Pages 203-225
  11. Some Remarks About Speech Act Pluralism

    • Marina Sbisà
    Pages 227-244
  12. Language Adds to Context

    • Paolo Leonardi
    Pages 277-290
  13. Squaring the Circle

    • Kepa Korta, John Perry
    Pages 291-302
  14. Indirect Reports and Pragmatics

    • Nellie Wieland
    Pages 389-411

About this book

This book is about the pragmatics of language and it illustrates how pragmatics transcends the boundaries of linguistics. This volume covers Gricean pragmatics as well as topics including: conversation and collective belief, the norm of assertion, speech acts, what a context is, the distinction between semantics and pragmatics and implicature and explicature, pragmatics and epistemology, the pragmatics of belief, quotation, negation, implicature and argumentation theory,  Habermas’ Universal Pragmatics, Dascal’s theory of the dialectical self, theories and theoretical discussions on the nature of pragmatics from a philosophical point of view.

Conversational implicatures are generally meaning augmentations on top of explicatures, whilst explicatures figure prominently in what is said. Discussions in this work reveal their characteristics and tensions within current theories relating to explicatures and implicatures. Authors show that explicatures and implicatures are calculable and not (directly) tied to conventional meaning.

Pragmatics has a role to play in dealing with philosophical problems and this volume presents research that defines boundaries and gives a stable picture of pragmatics and philosophy. World renowned academic experts in philosophy and pragmalinguistics ask important theoretical questions and interact in a way that can be easily grasped by those from disciplines other than philosophy, such as anthropology, literary theory and law.

A second volume in this series is also available, which covers the perspective of linguists who have been influenced by philosophy.

Reviews

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“Perspectives on Pragmatics and Philosophy, has adopted a philosophical focus to address issues within pragmatics that have a bearing on the philosophy of language. … a useful guide for the less-experienced general audience that wants to know a lot more about pragmatics; the theoretical questions raised by contributing authors, on the other hand, function as points of departure for professional researchers who are interested in exploring new (theoretical) frontiers in pragmatics as a still-young field of inquiry.” (Mohammad Ali Salmani Nodoushan, Intercultural Pragmatics, Vol. 11 (2), 2014)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Barcellona PG ME, Italy

    Alessandro Capone

  • University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

    Franco Lo Piparo, Marco Carapezza

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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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