Pragmatics and Philosophy. Connections and Ramifications

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This book shows how pragmatics and philosophy are interconnected, and explores the consequences and ramifications of this innovative idea, especially in addressing and solving the problem of breaking Grice's circle. The author applies philosophy in order to get to a better understanding of pragmatics, and pragmatics in order to get a better understanding of philosophy. The book starts with a chapter on the non-cancellability of explicatures and the role that this idea plays in the resolution of Grice’s circle, and proceeds with the discussion of other topics in which explicatures or cancellability play an important and decisive role. While the reader proceeds in the reading of this book, they accumulate notions and pieces of knowledge which will be of invaluable use when arriving at the chapter on conversational presuppositions (and related chapters), where the author expresses his most radical views: namely that (potential) presuppositions are indeed cancellable, contrary to what many believe. Front Matter ....Pages i-ix Pragmatics and Philosophy (and the Semantics/Pragmatics Debate) (Alessandro Capone)....Pages 1-16 Front Matter ....Pages 17-17 On a Theory-Internal Problem in the Semantics/Pragmatics Debate: How to Resolve Grice’s Circle (Alessandro Capone)....Pages 19-45 On the Nature of Pragmatic Increments at the Truth-Conditional Level (Alessandro Capone)....Pages 47-79 On the Tension Between Semantics and Pragmatics (Alessandro Capone)....Pages 81-102 The Pragmatics of Referential and Attributive Expressions (Alessandro Capone)....Pages 103-135 Knowing How and the Semantics/Pragmatics Debate (Alessandro Capone)....Pages 137-162 Front Matter ....Pages 163-163 Quotation With and Without Quotation Marks (Alessandro Capone)....Pages 165-190 Indirect Reports and Societal Pragmatics (Alessandro Capone)....Pages 191-208 Maier on the Alleged Transparency of Mixed Quotation (Alessandro Capone)....Pages 209-221 First Person Implicit Indirect Reports (Alessandro Capone)....Pages 223-238 What Happens When We Report Grammatical, Lexical and Morphological Errors? (Alessandro Capone)....Pages 239-262 Conversational Presuppositions. Presupposition as Defeasible (And Non-defeasible) Inference (Alessandro Capone)....Pages 263-288 The Clitic ‘lo’ in Italian, Propositional Attitudes and Presuppositions (Alessandro Capone)....Pages 289-311