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  • Perspectives on Pragmatics and Philosophy

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is about the pragmatics of language and it illustrates how pragmatics transcends the boundaries of linguistics. This volume covers Gricean pragmatics as well as topics including: conversation and collective belief, the norm of assertion, speech acts, what a context is, the distinction between semantics and pragmatics and implicature and explicature, pragmatics and epistemology, the ... Read more

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  • Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy

    Part 1 From Theory to Practice

    Series Book 1 - Social Sciences (R0)
    This book builds on the idea that pragmatics and philosophy are strictly interconnected and that advances in one area will generate consequential advantages in the other area. The first part of the book, entitled ‘Theoretical Approaches to Philosophy of Language’, contains contributions by philosophers of language on connectives, intensional contexts, demonstratives, subsententials, and implicit ... Read more

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  • Perspectives on Linguistic Pragmatics

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    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 ... Read more

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  • Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy: Part 2 Theories and Applications

    Series Book 2 - Social Sciences (R0)
    The two sections of this volume present theoretical developments and practical applicative papers respectively. Theoretical papers cover topics such as intercultural pragmatics, evolutionism, argumentation theory, pragmatics and law, the semantics/pragmatics debate, slurs, and more. The applied papers focus on topics such as pragmatic disorders, mapping places of origin, stance-taking, societal ... Read more

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