Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy (eBook)

Part I Theoretical approaches to philosophy of language.- Nathan Salmon, Cognition and recognition.- Jay Atlas, Aboutness and quantifying into intensional contexts.- Michael Devitt, Subsententials: Pragmatics or semantics?.- Graham Forbes, An investigation of a Gricean account of free-choice ‘or’.- Denis Delfitto, Negation as a window on the non-sequential nature of language interpretation and processing.- Alessandro Capone, Embedding explicatures in implicit indirect reports  (simple sentences and substitution failure cases).- Alberto Voltolini, How demonstratives’ complex pictorial reference grounds contextualism.- Part II Pragmatics in discourse.- Alessandra Giorgi, Discourse, sentence grammar and the left periphery of the clause.- Keith Allan, Gettings a grip of context as a determinant of meaning.- Gunter, Senft, Theory meets Practice – H. Paul Grice’s Maxims of Quality and Manner and the Trobriand Islanders’ language use.- Marco Carapezza – Valentina Cuccio, Abductive inferences in pragmatic processes.- Richard Warner, Coordinating Meaning: Common Knowledge and Coordination in Speaker Meaning.- Brian, Butler, Dworkin’s “Semantic Sting” and Behavioral Pragmatics.- Neale Norrick, Stories and the transmission of knowledge: Narrative, evidence, credibility and epistemic vigilance