Perspectives on Linguistic Pragmatics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Capone, Alessandro. (Editor), Lo Piparo, Franco. (Editor), Carapezza, Marco. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 2
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Language and languages > Philosophy.; Linguistics.; Philosophy of Language.; Theoretical Linguistics.; Linguistics, general.
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This volume provides insight into linguistic pragmatics from the perspective of linguists who have been influenced by philosophy. Theory of Mind and perspectives on point of view are presented along with other topics including: semantics vs. semiotics,  clinical pragmatics, explicatures, cancellabil...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Noel Burton-Roberts, Meaning, semantics and semiotics.-  Chapter 2. Louise Cummings, Clinical pragmatics and theory of mind
• Chapter 3. Nicholas Allott, Relevance Theory
• Chapter 4. Alison Hall, Relevance theory, semantic content and pragmatic enrichment
• Chapter 5. Alessandro Capone, Explicatures are NOT cancellable
• Chapter 6. Alessandro, Capone, The pragmatics of indirect reports and slurring
• Chapter 7. Eleni Gregoromichelaki and Ruth Kempson, Grammars as processes for interactive language use: incrementality and the emergence of joint intentionality
• Chapter 8. Yan Huang, Logophoricity and neo-Gricean truth-conditional pragmatics
• Chapter 9. Eros Corazza, Some notes on point of view
• Chapter 10. Keith Allan, Referring to what counts as the referent
• Chapter 11. Keith Allan, What is common ground?
• Chapter 12. Bart Geurts and Emar Maier Layered Discourse Representation Theory
• Chapter 13. Mandy Simons, On the conversational basis of some presuppositions
• Chapter 14. Klaus von Heusinger, The salience  theory of  definiteness
• Chapter 15. Istvan Kecskes and Fenghui Zhang,  On the dynamic relationship between common ground and presupposition
• Chapter 16. Alan Libert, What can pragmaticists learn from studying artificial languages?
• Chapter 17. Sorin Stati, Implicit propositions in an argumentative approach
• Chapter 18. Marco Mazzone, Automatic and controlled processes in pragmatics
• Chapter 19. Dorota Zielinska, The mechanism of the form-content correlation process in the paradigm of empirical sciences
• Chapter 20. Marco Carapezza and Pierluigi Biancini, Language game: calcolus or pragmatic act?