Inquiries in Philosophical Pragmatics: Theoretical Developments (Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 27)

Together with the volume “Inquiries in philosophical pragmatics: Linguistic and theoretical issues,” this book provides a journey through the more recent developments of pragmatics, considering both its philosophical and linguistic nature. This first volume is devoted to the theoretical models developed from a philosophical perspective, including both the newest advances of the classical theories and approaches, and pioneering and interdisciplinary ideas proposed to face the challenges of the fields and areas of practice and analysis. The topics investigated, which include implicatures, reference, presupposition, speech acts, metaphor, relevance, and common ground, represent the core of the state of the art in philosophical pragmatics. Research on these matters have been continuously changing the way that we can look at them. This book serves as a collection of works from the most eminent authors who represent the theoretical developments of the approaches that defined this field, together with the new philosophical insights coming from more applied disciplines such as argumentation, discourse analysis, or linguistics. The combination of these two perspectives provides a unique outline of the current research in pragmatics. Acknowledgments Contents About the Authors Introduction: Inquiries in Philosophical Pragmatics – Theoretical Developments References Three Mistakes About Semantic Intentions Mistake (I): Intending to Refer Objection 1: Implausible Starting Point Objection 2: Incomplete Objection 3: Redundant Objection 4: Misleading Mistake (II): Intending to Communicate Mistake (III): Constraints on Intentions References Common-Knowledge-Based Pragmatics A Coordination Problem Model of Communication Two Problems with the Gricean Answer Common Knowledge Generators Generating Common Knowledge in Communication Coordination Problems Social Roles Context Common Knowledge-Based Pragmatics Appendix References The Primacy of Semantics and How to Understand It Introduction The Territorial Wars: Semantics Versus Pragmatics The Pragmaticist Proposal The Semanticists Strike Back: A Radical Proposal The Guidance Proposal The Isolation Strategy and Why It Is Misleading Anaphora and Guided Saturation Conclusion References ‘Few’, ‘A Few’, ‘Only’: Negative Quantifier Noun Phases and Negative Polarity Items – The Horn-Atlas Debate 1991–2018 Historical Introduction “Only Proper Name” and “Few N” Sentences: Entailments, Implicata, and Monotonicity Zwarts’s (1996) De Morgan Taxonomy of Negative Noun Phrases “Only Proper Name”: The Standard View (Geach 1962, Pre-2002 Horn) “Only Proper Name”: The Stuttgart View (Atlas 1991, 1996) The Post-Horn (1996) Pragmatic View The Standard View of Few N: Chomsky (1972), Horn (1989, pp. 244–250), Zwarts (1996) The Atlas View of Few N Assertion and the Division of Semantic Labor Peter Geach’s Account of “Only Proper Name” Sentences: Excluding Force What Are Geach’s Options? The Atlas Dis-Solution of the ‘Only’ Problem References Speech-Act-Theoretic Explanations of Problems of Pure Indexicals Problematic Cases of the Personal Pronouns I and You The Analyses Given by Goffman (1981) and Austin ([1962]1975) Analysing the Problematic Cases Concluding Remarks References Prospective Reference 1. Theories of Prospective Reference 2. The Practice of Prospective Reference 2.1. Commerce and Law 2.2. Abortion Discourse 3. Experimental Data 4. Significance of the Data 4.1. Traditional Lexical Semantics 4.2. Semantic Externalism References Categorization, Memory and Linguistic Uses: What Happens in the Case of Polysemy Introduction Polysemy as a Semiotic Necessity Perspectives on the Study of Polysemy Lexical Pragmatics and Attention to Use Some Proposals for a “Dynamic” Interpretation of Polysemy Conclusions References Interpretation of Copredicative Sentences: A Rich Underspecification Account of Polysemy Introduction Classification of Underspecification Models Core-Meaning Approaches Thin Semantic Approaches Rich Underspecific Structures Analysis of Empirical Results Representation, Interpretation and Copredication in the Activation Package Model Conclusions References First Person Implicit Indirect Reports in Disguise Introduction The Scope of Pragmatics First Person Implicit Indirect Reports Second Person Indirect Reports and Implicit ‘De se’ Attributions Operation Cases Extending the Analysis Conclusion References Assessing Dialectical Relevance Using Argument Distance Introduction The Pragmatic Nature of Dialectical Relevance Probative and Topical Relevance The Nuclear Waste Example The Bank Robbery Example The Tuna Fish Example Modeling Probative Distance with Carneades First Abstract Example Second Abstract Example Conclusions References The Communicative Functions of Metaphors Between Explanation and Persuasion Metaphors: Between Persuading and Explaining Explanation Versus Persuasion Persuasive and Explanatory Metaphors Metaphors and the Blurred Distinction Between Explanation and Persuasion Describing the Conversational Goals of Metaphorical Utterances Metaphorical Moves From Metaphorical Utterances to Metaphorical Moves Goals of Metaphorical Explanations Conclusion References Stereotypes Favour Implicatures and Implicatures Smuggle Stereotypes: The Case of Propaganda Introduction The Evolution of Critical Attention: Implicit Strategies as Persuasive Devices Stereotypes in the Semantics of Advertising The Combined Effects of Stereotypes and Implicatures in Advertising and Propaganda Conclusions References