Assertion (Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures and Tables......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
1 Introduction......Page 12
2.2 Two types of speech-act theorist......Page 17
2.3 Speech-act fundamentalists and assertion......Page 27
2.4 Conclusion......Page 41
3.1 Introduction......Page 43
3.2 Assertion and belief: what is the correct order of explanation?......Page 44
3.3 Assertion and belief attribution......Page 49
3.4 Assertion and knowledge......Page 57
3.5 Conclusion......Page 61
4.1 Introduction......Page 63
4.2 Frege’s assertion sign......Page 64
4.3 Assertion: illocution and inference......Page 67
4.4 A natural-language assertion sign?......Page 70
4.5 Conclusion......Page 93
5.1 Introduction......Page 95
5.2 Sense, force and representation in Stalnaker’s account......Page 96
5.3 Assertion and presupposition......Page 103
5.4 Comparison with Relevance Theory......Page 110
5.5 Conclusion......Page 114
6.2 Mood in formal semantics......Page 116
6.3 Speech-act approaches to mood......Page 131
6.4 Conclusion......Page 139
7.1 Introduction......Page 140
7.2 Non-asserted main point......Page 141
7.3 Assertion, presupposition and conventional implicature......Page 145
7.4 Ordered entailments......Page 149
7.5 Conclusion......Page 159
8.1 Introduction......Page 161
8.2 Relevance in a context vs. relevance to an individual......Page 162
8.3 Context types......Page 163
8.4 Mood and force......Page 166
8.5 Assertion and main point......Page 184
8.6 Relevance maximising vs. relevance optimising......Page 188
8.7 Comparison with other frameworks......Page 203
8.8 Conclusion......Page 205
9 Conclusion......Page 207
Notes......Page 210
References......Page 222
Index......Page 230