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Record Nr.

UNINA9910253357303321

Autore

Capone Alessandro

Titolo

The Pragmatics of Indirect Reports : Socio-philosophical Considerations / / by Alessandro Capone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016

ISBN

9783319410784

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 364 pages)

Collana

Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, , 2214-3807 ; ; 8

Disciplina

401.45

Soggetti

Pragmatics

Language and languages—Philosophy

Sociolinguistics

Philosophy of Language

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Putting the threads together -- On the social practice of indirect reports -- On the (complicated) relationship between direct and indirect reports -- Indirect reports as language games -- Indirect reports and footing -- Reporting non-serious speech -- Indirect reports and slurring -- Indirectly reporting and translating slurring utterances -- Belief reports and pragmatic intrusion (the case of null appositives) -- The pragmatics of attitudes ‘de se’ -- Consequences of the pragmatics of ‘de se’ -- Impure ‘de se’ thoughts and pragmatics (and how this is relevant to pragmatics and IEM) -- Attributions of propositional attitude and pragmatic intrusion -- Simple sentences, substitution and embedding explicatures (the case of implicit indirect reports) -- General Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This monograph on indirect reports offers insights on the semantics/pragmatics interface and a refinement of the notion of explicature. The volume is written in an engaging style and guides the reader through the theoretical problems and their ramifications. The thorniest problem in the study of indirect reports is their polyphonic nature, and how the listener distinguishes between the reporter’s voice and the original speaker’s voice, either by contextual clues or, in the absence of such clues, by resorting to pragmatic principles. The



introductory chapter discusses the main issues that will be addressed in the volume. The next chapters focus on the various aspects of indirect reports, covering both theory and practical applications. .