'Yo!' and 'Lo!' : the pragmatic topography of the space of reasons / Rebecca Kukla, Mark Lance.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kukla, Rebecca, 1969-

Contributor:

Lance, Mark Norris.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics.

Speech acts (Linguistics).

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

xi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

Contents:

Pragmatism, pragmatics, and discourse : mapping the terrain

Varieties of pragmatism

Two distinctions among normative statuses

A typology of speech acts

More about agent-relativity and agent-neutrality

Several caveats

Entitlement and epistemic responsibility

Where we go from here

Observatives and the pragmatics of perception

Observatives

Observatives and occasion sentences

Observing-that and the declarative fallacy

The ineliminability of the first-person voice

The pragmatic structure of objectivity

Observatives, observation, and answerability to the world

Intersubjectivity

Objectivity

Anticlimactic interlude : why performatives are not that important to us

Prescriptives and the metaphysics of ought-claims

The pragmatics of prescriptives

Four ways of telling someone what to do

Two alternative accounts

Reasons, claims, and addresses

Coda : categorical imperatives

Vocatives, acknowledgments, and the pragmatics of recognition

Two kinds of recognitives

Vocatives

Acknowledgments

The essential second person

Concrete habitation of the space of reasons

Second-person speech

Tellings, holdings, and transcendental vocatives

Speech as communication and as calling

Sharing a world

Interpellation and induction into normative space

Membership in the discursive community

How many discursive communities are there?

Sharing a world and learning to see

On the equiprimordiality and entanglement of 'yo!' and 'lo!'

Fugue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674031470

0674031474

OCLC:

214282222