Inquiries in philosophical pragmatics : issues in linguistics / / Fabrizio Macagno, Alessandro Capone, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910483579903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021]; ©2021
• ISBN: 3-030-56696-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 pages)
• Collana: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy and Psychology ; ; v.28
• Disciplina: 306.44
• Soggetti: Pragmatics; Linguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction. Inquiries in Philosophical Pragmatics: Linguistic and Theoretical Issues -- References -- Ceteris Paribusiness: On the Power of Salient Exceptions -- Constraints on he/man Language: McConnell-Ginet's Generalization -- Un-accommodation: The Szabó-von Fintel Constraint -- Conditionals: Sobel Sequences and Other Irreversibilia -- Plurals, Bare and Definite: (Non-)Maximality and (Non-)Homogeneity -- Universals, Exceptions, and Domain Adjustment -- Concluding Remarks -- Appendix: Sobel sequences, small screen scenarios, and Sunday sermons -- References -- I like you may actually implicate 'I love you': A reconsideration of some scalar implicatures -- Introduction -- Standard Scalar Implicatures -- What Is a Scalar Implicature? -- Scalar Implicature-Triggering Scales -- Horn scales -- Rank Orders -- Hirschberg Scales -- Computation -- Three Cases of Non-canonical Scalar Implicature -- Chinese: From wo xihuan ni (I Like You) to wo ai ni (I Love You) -- Malagasy: Use of a General Noun for Personal Reference -- Chinese, Japanese, and English: Use of a Semantically Weak Scalar Expression out of Face/Politeness Considerations -- Compliment Responses -- Disapprovals/criticisms -- Announcements of Bad News -- A Novel Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Analysis -- Conclusions -- References -- Pragmatics and Grammar as Sources of Temporal Ordering in Discourse: The Case of And -- Introduction: Anaphoric Tenses, Anaphoric Scenarios -- The Meaning ; of Sentential And: Pragmatics or Grammar? -- From Implicature to What Is Said (and Back to the Lexicon) -- Coherence-Based Views -- Finding It in the Grammar -- And Enrichment: Finding the Culprit -- And Coordination in the Absence of Simple Past: Vox Populi -- Metafalsification as a Supplementary Method of Inquiry -- Examples: Five Case Studies -- And and the Degree of Eventhood.; Conclusions and Future Prospects -- Appendix -- References -- Inferential Patterns of Emotive Meaning -- Introduction -- Characteristics of Emotive Meaning -- The Defeasibility of Emotive Meaning -- The Twofold Nature of Expressive Force -- Emotive Meaning as Defeasible Inferences -- An Argumentative Account of Ethical Words -- Inferences and Descriptive Meaning -- The Dynamic Uses of Ethical Words -- Using Emotive Words to Craft Emotions -- Manipulating the Definition of Emotive Words -- Crafting Emotive Meaning -- Crafting Heuristics. Connotation and Emotive Meaning -- Conclusion -- References -- Seniors, Older People, the Elderly, Oldies, and Old People: What Language Reveals about Stereotypes of Ageing in Australia -- Overview -- Seniors -- Older People -- The Elderly -- Oldies and Old People -- Conclusions -- References -- How to Be Impolite (or Worse) in an Artificial Auxiliary Language -- Conclusion -- References -- Pragmemes at the Market Place -- Introduction -- Structure of the Paper -- Pragmemes and Deontic Modality -- The Pragmeme 'Selling the Fish' at the Market Place. -- Conclusion -- References -- Pragmatics of Self-Reference Pronouns in Capital Trials -- Introduction -- Capital Trials, the Penalty Phase and Closing Arguments -- Pronouns and Footing -- Data and Method -- Findings -- Functional Roles of I -- Functional Roles of We -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Data Sources -- References -- Navigating Narrative Subjectivity in Schizophrenia: A Deictic Network Analysis of Narrative Viewpoints of Self and Other -- Introduction -- Review of the Literature -- Philosophical Accounts of Schizophrenia -- Empirical Research on Language in Schizophrenia -- Connecting Philosophical and Linguistic Research on Schizophrenia -- Deictic Navigation Network -- Data -- Analysis -- Setting up the Narrative -- Navigating Deictic Centers.; Embedded Speech Act Domains -- Spatial Navigation -- Introducing Other Speakers in the Narrative -- Conclusion and Discussion -- Appendix: Original Transcript in Dutch and its English Translation -- References -- Pragmatic Perspective of Literary Texts for Children -- Introduction: Narrative Text - Key Issues -- Intentions and Images -- Fairy Text Worlds Furnished with Child-Oriented Metaphorical Units -- Conclusions -- References -- Sources -- When Both Utterances and Appearances are Deceptive: Deception in Multimodal Film Narrative -- Introduction -- Film as a Multimodal Narrative Constructed by the Cinematic Narrator -- Multimodal Analysis -- Film Cognition -- Narrative Unreliability -- Accounting for Types of Deception and Deception in Film -- Types of Multimodal Deception in Film -- Extradiegetic Deception Performed Only by the Cinematic Narrator -- Intradiegetic Deception Performed by Characters -- Deception Performed Jointly by the Intradiegetic and Cinematic Narrators -- Can the Cinematic Narrator Lie or Just Deceive Otherwise? -- Conclusions and Final Comments -- References.