Radical pragmatics. Ed. by Peter Cole

Frontmatter Halftitle Title Copyright Contents List of Contributors Preface It-Clefts, informativeness, and logical form: Radical pragmatics (revised standard version) (Atlas & Levinson) 1. The standard version of radical pragmatics and the standard objections 2. Truth and logical form 3. Clefts and a criticism of radical pragmatics 4. Implicatures and logical forms 5. The semantics and pragmatics of clefts: A unified theory? 6. A recent description of clefts 7. The opposing descriptions of clefts 8. Negation and implicature: A problem for the standard version of radical pragmatics 9. The inference from quantity and its limitations 10. The inference from informativeness 11. The apparent clash between Gricean Maxims and our principle of informativeness: Its resolution 12. The logical form of clefts and its explanatory value 13. The interaction of semantics and pragmatics Acknowledgements References On time, tense, and aspect: An essay in English metaphysics (Bach) 1. The problem 2. English tense logic 3. Pragmatics 4. Events, states, processes 5. Time adverbials 6. Tense and aspect 7. Conclusions Acknowledgements References Stalnaker on pragmatic presupposition (Caton) 1. Introduction 2. Stalnaker’s “first approximation” and its addendum 3. Propositional attitudes, epistemic qualification, and pragmatic principles governing discourse 3.1. The propositional attitude (“assumes or believes”) in the definition 3.2. Epistemic qualification briefly expounded 3.3. Propositional attitudes reconsidered in the light of EQn 3.4. An argument for semantic presupposition 3.5. Rational of pragmatic principle I 3.6. The rational of pinciple II 3.7. Stalnaker’s definition-sketch revised 4. Conclusion 4.1. Summary of the main contentions leading to the revised definition 4.2. Some unsolved problems References Syntactic and semantic indeterminacy resolved: A mostly pragmatic analysis for the Hindi conjunctive particle (Davison) 1. Introduction 2. Coordination versus subordination 3. Syntactic arguments for -kar constructions as subordinate 4. Scope of negation and question 5. The meaning of -kar 6. Conversational inferences from -kar clauses 6.1. Meaning variation 6.2. Variability of scope relations 7. Conclusion Acknowledgements References Intuitions and presuppositions (Donnellan) 1. Historical background 2. Russell’s treatment 3. Strawson’s view and intuitions 4. Strawson’s later view 5. Troubles with Strawson’s later view 6. Intuitions References Pragmatics and the description of discourse (Fillmore) 1. Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics 2. Pragmatics in particular 3. Methods of discourse description 4. Contextualization 5. Positions on the proper description of discourse 6. Text typology 7. Features of embedded discourse 8. Remarks on a selected text type 9. Concluding remarks Acknowledgements References Pragmatics, grammar, and discourse (Green & Morgan) 1. The questions 2. Some previous attempts 3. More promising directions 4. Some implications References Presupposition and conversational implicature (Grice) References Validating pragmatic explanations (Nunberg) 1. Introduction 2. The form of a pragmatic explanation 3. Attributing the explanation to speakers 4. Why pragmatic explanations underdetermine use 5. Conclusion References Toward a taxonomy of given-new information (Prince) 1. On the conveying of information in language 2. “Given-new” 2.1 Givennessₚ : Predictability/recoverability 2.2 Givennessₛ : Saliency 2.3 Givennessₖ : “Shared knowledge” 2.4 Relatedness of the three types of givenness 3. So-called “shared knowledge” 3.1 Terminology 3.2 The problem 3.3 The taxonomy 4. Illustration 5. Areas for further study Acknowledgements References Almost (Sadock) Formal semantics and extralinguistic context (Sag) 1. Introduction 2. Strict context-independent semantics 3. Temporal context-independent semantics 4. Strict context-dependent semantics 5. Extended context-dependent semantics 6. Context-saturated semantics 7. Conclusion Acknowledgements References Irony and the use-mention distinction (Sperber & Wilson) 1. Introduction 2. Some methodological preliminaries 3. Some basic data 4. The use–mention distinction 5. Irony as echoic mention 6. Some further aspects of irony 7. A final example 8. Conclusion References Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z Frontmatter Halftitle Title Copyright Contents List of Contributors Preface It-Clefts, informativeness, and logical form: Radical pragmatics (revised standard version) (Atlas & Levinson) 1. The standard version of radical pragmatics and the standard objections 2. Truth and logical form 3. Clefts and a criticism of radical pragmatics 4. Implicatures and logical forms 5. The semantics and pragmatics of clefts: A unified theory? 6. A recent description of clefts 7. The opposing descriptions of clefts 8. Negation and implicature: A problem for the standard version of radical pragmatics 9. The inference from quantity and its limitations 10. The inference from informativeness 11. The apparent clash between Gricean Maxims and our principle of informativeness: Its resolution 12. The logical form of clefts and its explanatory value 13. The interaction of semantics and pragmatics Acknowledgements References On time, tense, and aspect: An essay in English metaphysics (Bach) 1. The problem 2. English tense logic 3. Pragmatics 4. Events, states, processes 5. Time adverbials 6. Tense and aspect 7. Conclusions Acknowledgements References Stalnaker on pragmatic presupposition (Caton) 1. Introduction 2. Stalnaker’s “first approximation” and its addendum 3. Propositional attitudes, epistemic qualification, and pragmatic principles governing discourse 3.1. The propositional attitude (“assumes or believes”) in the definition 3.2. Epistemic qualification briefly expounded 3.3. Propositional attitudes reconsidered in the light of EQn 3.4. An argument for semantic presupposition 3.5. Rational of pragmatic principle I 3.6. The rational of pinciple II 3.7. Stalnaker’s definition-sketch revised 4. Conclusion 4.1. Summary of the main contentions leading to the revised definition 4.2. Some unsolved problems References Syntactic and semantic indeterminacy resolved: A mostly pragmatic analysis for the Hindi conjunctive particle (Davison) 1. Introduction 2. Coordination versus subordination 3. Syntactic arguments for -kar constructions as subordinate 4. Scope of negation and question 5. The meaning of -kar 6. Conversational inferences from -kar clauses 6.1. Meaning variation 6.2. Variability of scope relations 7. Conclusion Acknowledgements References Intuitions and presuppositions (Donnellan) 1. Historical background 2. Russell’s treatment 3. Strawson’s view and intuitions 4. Strawson’s later view 5. Troubles with Strawson’s later view 6. Intuitions References Pragmatics and the description of discourse (Fillmore) 1. Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics 2. Pragmatics in particular 3. Methods of discourse description 4. Contextualization 5. Positions on the proper description of discourse 6. Text typology 7. Features of embedded discourse 8. Remarks on a selected text type 9. Concluding remarks Acknowledgements References Pragmatics, grammar, and discourse (Green & Morgan) 1. The questions 2. Some previous attempts 3. More promising directions 4. Some implications References Presupposition and conversational implicature (Grice) References Validating pragmatic explanations (Nunberg) 1. Introduction 2. The form of a pragmatic explanation 3. Attributing the explanation to speakers 4. Why pragmatic explanations underdetermine use 5. Conclusion References Toward a taxonomy of given-new information (Prince) 1. On the conveying of information in language 2. “Given-new” 2.1 Givennessp : Predictability/recoverability 2.2 Givennesss : Saliency 2.3 Givennessk : “Shared knowledge” 2.4 Relatedness of the three types of givenness 3. So-called “shared knowledge” 3.1 Terminology 3.2 The problem 3.3 The taxonomy 4. Illustration 5. Areas for further study Acknowledgements References Almost (Sadock) Formal semantics and extralinguistic context (Sag) 1. Introduction 2. Strict context-independent semantics 3. Temporal context-independent semantics 4. Strict context-dependent semantics 5. Extended context-dependent semantics 6. Context-saturated semantics 7. Conclusion Acknowledgements References Irony and the use-mention distinction (Sperber & Wilson) 1. Introduction 2. Some methodological preliminaries 3. Some basic data 4. The use–mention distinction 5. Irony as echoic mention 6. Some further aspects of irony 7. A final example 8. Conclusion References Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z