Exploring Contextualism and Performativity

Alessandro Capone has a Doctorate in linguistics (University of Oxford) and a doctorate in philosophy of language (University of Palermo). He is full professor in linguistics and also in philosophy of language. He is a series editor for Springer, an editor for Intercultural Pragmatics, author of five monographs, a book of poems, editor of fourteen international volumes, and papers published in top international journals. He is a board member of numerous international journals. Dr. Assunta Penna is a Doctorate of the University of Messina and is a doctorial student of the University of Salerno. She is employed at the University of Messina and responsible for research coordination. She has written a number of research papers.

Introduction.- I. Pragmalinguistics.- Chapter 1. Reference in Context.- Chapter 2. For a definition of hyperbole as operative on the scenes of the ancient Greek theatre: situations and lexicon.- Chapter 3. Synonymy and contextual dependence.- II. Performativity and social pragmatics.- Chapter 4. Genre as a context for persuasion: the construction of identities in different forms of institutionalised discourse. A case study.- Chapter 5. Pragmatics, Metaphor Studies and the Challenge of Mental Imagery.- Chapter 6. Material engagement and mediation: two necessary concepts.- Chapter 7. Silence as a meaning framework.- Chapter 8. Schtroumpf: forms of life and forms of talk.- III. Neurocognition and Clinical studies.- Chapter 9. Cognitive-Linguistic Difficulties in COVID-19.- Chapter 10. Reasoning as a tool at the service of our goals.- Chapter 11. When context really matters: the case of schizophrenia.- Chapter 12. Beyond the Meaning of Words: Issues in Neuropragmatics, Clinical Pragmaticsand Schizophrenic Language.- Chapter 13. Moral enhancement and contextualism: some reasons for the unattainability of the program for moralizing people.- Chapter 14. Clinical pragmatics and contextualism.