Philosophical Insights into Pragmatics

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The book provides philosophical interpretations of pragmatic issues. It concentrates on well-established concepts such as presupposition, entailment, implicature, speech acts, subsentential speech acts, different cases of meaning as use, expressive meanings and expressive commitments, as well as the relation between knowledge and belief. The discussion goes beyond linguistic investigations and offers a wide philosophical perspective. Contents List of Contributors Philosophical Insights into Pragmatics: Introduction Presuppositions, again Can Entailments Be Implicatures? Trying to Make Sense of Embedded Conversational Implicatures Is There any Use for a Notion of the Correct Interpretation of an Utterance? Negotiating What Is Said in the Face of Miscommunication Playing Games, Following Rules, and Linguistic Activity Subsentential Speech Acts, the Argument from Connectivity, and Situated Contextualism Accommodation in Linguistic Interaction. On the So-called Triggering Problem Expressive Meanings and Expressive Commitments. A Case of Meaning as Use Temperate Semantic Conventionalism Reflective Meta-attitudes and (In)Compatibilism Index of Subjects Index of Names