Capone Alessandro, Lo Piparo Franco, Carapezza Marco. Perspectives on Linguistic Pragmatics

Springer, 2013. — 543 pages. — ISBN: 978-3-319-01014-4.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, cancellability of explicatures, interactive language use, reference, common ground, presupposition, definiteness, logophoricity and point of view in connection with pragmatic inference, pragmemes and language games, pragmatics and artificial languages, the mechanism of the form/content correlation from a pragmatic point of view, amongst other issues relating to language use. Relevance Theory is introduced as an important framework, allowing readers to familiarize themselves with technical details and linguistic terminology.This book follows on from the first volume: both contain the work of world renowned experts who discuss theories relevant to pragmatics. Here, the relationship between semantics and pragmatics is explored: conversational explicatures are a way to bridge the gap in semantics between underdetermined logical forms and full propositional content. These volumes are written in an accessible way and work well both as a stimulus to further research and as a guide to less experienced researchers and students who would like to know more about this vast, complex, and difficult field of inquiry.Meaning, Semantics and Semiotics
Clinical Pragmatics and Theory of Mind
Relevance Theory
Relevance Theory, Semantic Content and Pragmatic Enrichment
Explicatures are NOT Cancellable
The Pragmatics of Indirect Reports and Slurring
Grammars as Processes for Interactive Language Use: Incrementality and the Emergence of Joint Intentionality . Logophoricity and Neo-Gricean Truth-Conditional Pragmatics
Some Notes on Points of View
Referring to ‘What Counts as the Referent’: A View from Linguistics
What is Common Ground?
Layered Discourse Representation Theory
On the Conversational Basis of Some Presuppositions
The Salience Theory of Definiteness
On the Dynamic Relations Between Common Ground and Presupposition.
What can Pragmaticists Learn from Studying Artificial Languages?
Implicit Propositions in an Argumentative Approach
Automatic and Controlled Processes in Pragmatics
The Mechanism of the Form-Content Correlation Process in the Paradigm of Socio-Natural Sciences Language-Game: Calculus or Pragmatic Act?