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Pragmatics and Philosophy. Connections and Ramifications

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Authors:
  1. Alessandro Capone

    1. Department of Cognitive Science, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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  • Contributes highly original ideas on the problem of breaking Grice's circle, a topic that underlies the whole philosophy of language and linguistics
  • Offers a clear illustration of the problem, both at a theoretical level and in relation to distinct topics, such as explicatures and presuppositions applied to indirect reports
  • Presents an extraordinarily rich overview of the state of the art in the debate concerning the divide between semantics and pragmatics
  • Reviews an excitingly broad range of linguistic phenomena and provides detailed accounts of existing theoretical approaches

Part of the book series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology (PEPRPHPS, volume 22)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Pragmatics and Philosophy (and the Semantics/Pragmatics Debate)

    • Alessandro Capone
    Pages 1-16

  4. Indirect Reports and Presuppositions as Pragmatic Phenomena

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. Quotation With and Without Quotation Marks

      • Alessandro Capone
      Pages 165-190

    3. Indirect Reports and Societal Pragmatics

      • Alessandro Capone
      Pages 191-208

    4. Maier on the Alleged Transparency of Mixed Quotation

      • Alessandro Capone
      Pages 209-221

    5. First Person Implicit Indirect Reports

      • Alessandro Capone
      Pages 223-238

    6. What Happens When We Report Grammatical, Lexical and Morphological Errors?

      • Alessandro Capone
      Pages 239-262

    7. Conversational Presuppositions. Presupposition as Defeasible (And Non-defeasible) Inference

      • Alessandro Capone
      Pages 263-288

    8. The Clitic ‘lo’ in Italian, Propositional Attitudes and Presuppositions

      • Alessandro Capone
      Pages 289-311
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About this book

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. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Cognitive Science, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

    Alessandro Capone

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pragmatics and Philosophy. Connections and Ramifications

  • Authors: Alessandro Capone

  • Series Title: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19146-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19145-0Published: 27 June 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19148-1Published: 14 August 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19146-7Published: 14 June 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2214-3807

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-3815

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 311

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Pragmatics, Philosophy of Language, Semantics

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