0000000001338641
AUTHOR
Capone, A
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Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy. part 1: From theory to practice.
2018
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 book presents perspectives which, generally, make most of the Gricean idea of the centrality of a speaker's intention in attribution of meaning of utterances, whether one is interested in the level of sentence-like units or chunks od discourse. Papers by: K. Allan, B. Butler, D. Atlas, A. Capone, M: Carapezza, V. Cuccio, M. Devitt, D. Delfitto, G. Forbes, A. Giorgi, N. Norrick, N. Salmon, G. Sent, A. Voltolini, R. Warner,
Perspectives on language use and pragmatics. A volume in memory of Sorin Stati.
2010
This volume is written in memory of Sorin Stati. The authors of this volume mainly deal with perspectives on language use and pragmatics. Each of them has his/her own approach, so the volume should not be taken as representing a single school of thought. Of course, the ideas expressed in all of the articles are reminiscent of Wittgenstein's position which privileged meaning as use. We use language to do many things, to give and to obtain, to persuade and to order, to interact and create human bonds.Words and sentences acquire meaning in context, thus a decontextualized approach must be delegitimized. What the authors in this collection do is to place emphasis on the power of context and cot…