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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337731003321

Autore

Capone Alessandro

Titolo

Pragmatics and Philosophy. Connections and Ramifications / / by Alessandro Capone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-19146-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 pages)

Collana

Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, , 2214-3807 ; ; 22

Disciplina

306.44

401.45

Soggetti

Pragmatics

Language and languages—Philosophy

Semantics

Philosophy of Language

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

This book shows how pragmatics and philosophy are interconnected, and explores the consequences and ramifications of this innovative idea, especially in addressing and solving the problem of breaking



Grice's circle. The author applies philosophy in order to get to a better understanding of pragmatics, and pragmatics in order to get a better understanding of philosophy. The book starts with a chapter on the non-cancellability of explicatures and the role that this idea plays in the resolution of Grice’s circle, and proceeds with the discussion of other topics in which explicatures or cancellability play an important and decisive role. While the reader proceeds in the reading of this book, they accumulate notions and pieces of knowledge which will be of invaluable use when arriving at the chapter on conversational presuppositions (and related chapters), where the author expresses his most radical views: namely that (potential) presuppositions are indeed cancellable, contrary to what many believe.