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Wood, Tahir. 2011. Hermeneutic pragmatics and the pitfalls of the normative imagination. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (1) : 136–149.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

As excessively formalised approaches to pragmatics, which practically exclude agency, cannot handle the complete range of meaning, created by the very nature of inter-agentive communicative relations, this study deals with an integral incorporation of agency into linguistic pragmatics, presenting to this end a hermeneutic (pragmatics) model, articulating the formal and functional linguistic aspects with a detailed notion of autopoiesis.