Pragmatics and Philosophy. Connections and Ramifications

By Alessandro Capone

Book Overview

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. On a theory-internal problem in the semantics/pragmatics debate: how to resolve Grice's circle.- Chapter 3. On the nature of pragmatic increments at the truth-conditional level.- Chapter 4. On the tension between semantics and pragmatics.- Chapter 5. The pragmatics of referential and attributive expressions.- Chapter 6. The clitic 'lo' in Italian, propositional attitudes and presuppositions.- Chapter 7. Quotation with and without quotation marks.- Chapter 8. Knowing how and the semantics/pragmatics debate.- Chapter 9. Indirect reports and societal pragmatics.- Chapter 10. What happens when we report grammatical, lexical and morphological errors?.- Chapter 11. Maier on the alleged transparency of mixed quotation.- Chapter 12. Conversational presuppositions. Presupposition as defeasible (and non-defeasible) inference.- Chapter 13. Presuppositions in indirect reporting.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030191486
• ISBN13: 9783030191481
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"