Language Use: A Philosophical Investigation into the Basic Notions of Pragmatics

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Language and Context....Pages 15-24
The Pragmatic Account of Deixis....Pages 25-30
Context-Dependence....Pages 31-44
Ironical Use of Indexical Expressions....Pages 45-49
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
The Semantic Reading and Conversational Implicature....Pages 53-65
Literal Meaning....Pages 66-75
The Pragmatic Notion of Order....Pages 76-83
General Principles of Rationality as a Basis for Language Use....Pages 84-98
Formal Pragmatics....Pages 99-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
The Speaker-Hearer Scheme of Communication....Pages 109-119
Speech Acts versus Language Games....Pages 120-135
Language vs Languages and Philosophy vs Linguistics....Pages 136-152
Intentions and Beliefs as Conditions for Use....Pages 153-170
The Semantic Reading and the Notion of Indirect Speech....Pages 171-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
The Notion of Presupposition in Pragmatics....Pages 185-190
Presuppositions and Methods of Linguistics....Pages 191-208
Defeasibility and the Projection Problem....Pages 209-218
Back Matter....Pages 219-240