Philosophical Insights into Pragmatics / Piotr Stalmaszczyk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stalmaszczyk, Piotr, Editor.

Series:

Philosophische Analyse ; 79.

Philosophical Analysis ; 79

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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:

Frontmatter

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110626339

3110626330

9783110628937

3110628937

OCLC:

1102797971