Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy: Part 1 From Theory to Practice

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This book builds on the idea that pragmatics and philosophy are strictly interconnected and that advances in one area will generate consequential advantages in the other area. The first part of the book, entitled ‘Theoretical Approaches to Philosophy of Language’, contains contributions by philosophers of language on connectives, intensional contexts, demonstratives, subsententials, and implicit indirect reports. The second part, ‘Pragmatics in Discourse’, presents contributions that are more empirically based or of a more applicative nature and that deal with the pragmatics of discourse, argumentation, pragmatics and law, and context. The book presents perspectives which, generally, make most of the Gricean idea of the centrality of a speaker’s intention in attribution of meaning to utterances, whether one is interested in the level of sentence-like units or larger chunks of discourse. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Semantically Empty Gestures (Nathan Salmon)....Pages 3-24 Aboutness and Quantifying Into Intensional Contexts: A Pragmatic Topic/Comment Analysis of Propositional Attitude Statements (Jay David Atlas)....Pages 25-43 Sub-Sententials: Pragmatics or Semantics? (Michael Devitt)....Pages 45-64 An Investigation of a Gricean Account of Free-Choice or (Graeme Forbes)....Pages 65-79 Negation as a window on the non-sequential nature of language interpretation and processing (Denis Delfitto)....Pages 81-95 Embedding explicatures in implicit indirect reports: simple sentences, and substitution failure cases (Alessandro Capone)....Pages 97-136 How Demonstrative Complex Pictorial Reference Grounds Contextualism (Alberto Voltolini)....Pages 137-149 Front Matter ....Pages 151-151 Discourse, sentence grammar and the left periphery of the clause (Alessandra Giorgi)....Pages 153-175 Getting a grip on context as a determinant of meaning (Keith Allan)....Pages 177-201 Theory meets Practice – H. Paul Grice’s Maxims of Quality and Manner and the Trobriand Islanders’ language use (Gunter Senft)....Pages 203-220 ABDUCTIVE INFERENCES IN PRAGMATIC PROCESSES (Marco Carapezza, Valentina Cuccio)....Pages 221-242 Coordinating Meaning: Common Knowledge and Coordination in Speaker Meaning (Richard Warner)....Pages 243-258 Dworkin’s “Semantic Sting” and Behavioral Pragmatics (Brian E. Butler)....Pages 259-273 Stories and the transmission of knowledge: Narrative, evidence, credibility and epistemic vigilance (Neal R. Norrick)....Pages 275-299