Perspectives on Pragmatics and Philosophy Anteprima del libro
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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
