Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics

• Introduction | p. 1
• 1. Grammar and rhetoric within a functional view of language | p. 9
• 1.0 Preface
• 1.1 Grammar and rhetoric
• 1.2 Functionalism and formalism
• 1.3 Textual and interpersonal rhetoric
• 1.4 Via media: formalist functionalism
• 2. Natural language as metalanguage | p. 31
• 2.0 Preface
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Metalanguage: examples and definitions
• 2.3 The semantic representation of metareference
• 2.4 The problem of direct and indirect speech
• 2.5 The problem of semantic acceptability in reporting sentences
• 2.6 The problem of referential opacity
• 2.7 The problem of presuppositions
• 2.8 Conclusion
• 3. Metalanguage, pragmatics, and performatives | p. 59
• 3.0 Preface
• 3.1 The performative hypothesis and the pragmatic analysis
• 3.2 Indirect speech and modes of mention
• 3.3 A sketch of the pragmatic analysis
• 3.4 Comparison of the performative hypothesis and the pragmatic analysis
• 3.5 Conclusion
• 4. Language and tact | p. 79
• 4.0 Preface
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 “Direct and indirect illocutions” versus “sense and force”
• 4.3 Searle's approach compared with the present one
• 4.4 Gordon and Lakoff's conversational postulates
• 4.5 Sadock's ‘extended performative hypothesis’
• 4.6 Relation between sense and force
• 4.7 Explanation of ‘indirectness’ by conversational principles
• 4.8 Recapitulation
• 4.9 The logical form (sense) of a sentence
• 4.10 The pragmatic force of a sentence
• 4.11 Negative politeness
• 4.12 The tact maxim
• 4.13 The hinting strategy
• 4.14 Pragmatic space
• 4.15 Conclusion
• Footnotes | p. 119

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