Possibilities and Limitations of Pragmatics

Proceedings of the Conference on Pragmatics, Urbino, July 8–14, 1979

Editors

Herman Parret

| Belgian National Science Foundation; Universities of Louvain and Antwerp

Marina Sbisà

| University of Trieste

Jef Verschueren

| Belgian National Science Foundation; University of Antwerp

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This impressive volume attempts to make an assessment of past achievements, but also to open up new perspectives in the field of pragmatics, exactly ten years after the publication of Searle’s seminal Speech Acts. This rich collection presents an unrivaled diversity of topics and approaches united by the possibilities and limitations generic to the field of pragmatics.

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 7] 1981. x, 854 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.7

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	v
List of Contributors	viii
Introduction	1
Context change and its consequences for a theory of natural language Thomas T. Ballmer	17
Semantic constraints on relevance Diane Brockway	57
The problem of appropriateness in pragmatic development Luigia Camaioni	79
Language acquisition, psychological dualism and the definition of pragmatics Robin N. Campbell	93
Pragmatic issues in the construction of recent history from interview narratives Aaron V. Cicourel	105
Pragmatics and pragmatism David E. Cooper	123
Idiomaticity as a problem of pragmatics Florian Coulmas	139
Contextualism Marcelo Dascal †	153
Causatives Steven Davis	179
How to make and understand a request Susan M. Ervin-Tripp	195
I'll bet you $10 that betting is not a speech act Nicholas Fotion	211
Seven sins of pragmatics: Theses about speech act theory, conversational analysis, linguistics and rhetoric Dorothea Franck	225
Attributing mental states: A second look at mother-child interaction Beatrice de Gelder	237
How to combine speech act theory with formal semantics: A new account of Searle's concept of proposition Paul Gochet	251
Answering as decision making: A new way of doing pragmatics Günther Grewendorf	263
Political determinants of pragmatic and sociolinguistic choices Hartmut Haberland and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas	285
Pragmatic considerations within a text-theoretical framework W. Heydrich and János Sánder Petöfi	313
Pragmatical grammar and the pragmatics of grammar Götz Hindelang	331
On insisting Franz Hundsnurscher	343
Non-truth-conditional quantification Christian Kock	359
Pragmatically based grammar Werner Kummer	371
On the delimitation of semantics and the characterization of meaning: Some remarks François Latraverse and Suzanne Leblanc	399
Pragmatics and conversational rhetoric Geoffrey N. Leech	413
Pragmatics, language games, questions and answers Paolo Leonardi and Marco Santambrogio	443
The essential inadequacies of speech act models of dialogue Stephen C. Levinson	473
Grammar, logic and rhetoric in a pragmatic perspective Guido Morpurgo-Tagliabue	493
Common problems in the theory of anaphora and the theory of discourse Richard T. Oehrle	509
Classroom verbal interaction: A conversational analysis Franca Orletti	531
A goal analysis of some pragmatic aspects of language Domenico Parisi and Cristiano Castelfranchi	551
Answers, replies and reactions Isabella Poggi, Cristiano Castelfranchi and Domenico Parisi	569
On Kripke on Donnellan François Recanati	593
Phenomenological analysis of language and its application to time and tense Helmut Schnelle	631
Coherence as a pragmatic concept Viggo Sorensen	657
Pragmatics and causal theoretic aspects of semantics Dennis Stampe	683
How to be a referent Charles Travis	713
On the art of deception: How to lie while saying the truth Jocelyne Vincent Marrelli and Cristiano Castelfranchi	749
On the formal treatment of illocutionary force indicators Dietmar Zaefferer	779
References	799
Index	833

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