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Critical Pragmatics : an Inquiry into Reference and Communication.
Explains why critical pragmatics provides insight into how language study fits within the broader picture of human thought and action.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Critical Pragmatics; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1 A conversation at Hondarribia airport; 1.2 Three ideas; 1.3 The anatomy of an utterance; 1.4 Singular reference; 1.5 The plan; 2 A short history of reference; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 One hundred-plus years of reference; 2.2.1 From Frege and Russell to the new theory of reference; 2.2.2 Two questions; 2.2.3 Indexicals; 2.3 The problem of cognitive significance; 2.4 From Kaplan to utterances; 3 Acts, roles, and singular reference; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Acts and actions; 3.3 Roles.
- 3.4 Signs and information3.5 Gricean reference; 4 Elements of reference; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Cognition and information: an analogy; 4.3 A modest theory of ideas; 4.4 Paradigm referential plans; 4.4.1 The grammatical intention; 4.4.2 The directing intention; 4.4.3 The target intention; 4.4.4 The path intention; 4.5 Examples; 5 Demonstratives; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The professor and the portrait; 5.3 Forensics; 5.4 Walking through Donostia; 5.5 Truth-conditions; 5.6 Demonstratives and the problems of cognitive significance; 5.6.1 Co-reference; 5.6.2 No-reference.
- 6 Context sensitivity and indexicals6.1 Role-contexts; 6.2 Indexicals; 6.3 Using 'I'; 6.3.1 Misidentifying oneself; 6.4 Indexicals, dates, and time; 6.5 Technology and indexicals; 7 Names; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Names and nambiguity; 7.3 Networks and reference; 7.3.1 Coco-referring; 7.3.2 Networks; 7.4 Names and roles; 7.5 Names as role-coordination devices: examples; 7.6 Names and cognitive significance; 7.7 The no-reference problem; 8 Definite descriptions; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Incomplete descriptions; 8.3 Designational truth-conditions and referring*; 8.4 Inaccurate descriptions.
- 8.5 Conclusion9 Implicit reference and unarticulated constituents; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Unarticulated constituents and the supplemental nature of language; 9.3 Three kinds of unarticulated constituents; 9.3.1 Unarticulated and grammatically incomplete; 9.3.2 Unarticulated, grammatically complete, but referentially incomplete; 9.3.3 Unarticulated, even though grammatically and referentially complete; 9.4 Whence unarticulated constituents?; 9.4.1 Deep lexicalization; 9.4.2 Logical form; 9.5 Are unarticulated constituents a myth?; 10 Locutionary content and speech acts; 10.1 Introduction.
- 10.2 Locutionary content versus what is said10.3 Locutionary acts and locutionary content; 10.4 Locuted but not said: some examples; 10.5 Locutionary versus propositional content; 10.6 Conclusion; 11 Reference and implicature; 11.1 Introduction; 11.2 Grice and what is said; 11.3 Eros' thirst; Situation I; Situation II; Situation III; 11.4 Identity, implicature, and cognitive significance; 11.5 The man who has run out of petrol; 11.6 The maxim of manner of reference; 11.7 Conclusion; 12 Semantics, pragmatics, and Critical Pragmatics; 12.1 Introduction; 12.2 Situating semantics.