Philosophical Perspectives for Pragmatics (Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights)

Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Preface to the series......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 16
1. Pragmatics and philosophy......Page 18
2. Conceptions of meaning......Page 19
3. Speech as action......Page 21
4. Mind and self......Page 23
5. Doing pragmatics, doing philosophy......Page 25
References......Page 26
1. Philosophy as analysis......Page 28
1.2 The influence of Frege......Page 29
1.3 Analysis in G.E. Moore and B. Russell......Page 30
2.2 Rudolf Carnap and the Encyclopedia of unified science......Page 31
3. Analysis and ordinary language......Page 32
3.3.1 J. L. Austin......Page 33
3.3.3 H. P. Grice......Page 34
4.1 W. V. O. Quine: From analysis to naturalization......Page 35
4.3 Meaning and understanding......Page 36
4.4 Philosophy of mind......Page 37
5. Analytical philosophy and pragmatics......Page 38
References......Page 40
1.1 Austin’s philosophical method......Page 43
1.3 General tendencies......Page 45
2.1 Knowledge and belief......Page 46
2.2 Perception......Page 47
3.2 Performative utterances......Page 48
3.4 The speech act......Page 49
4. Philosophy of action......Page 50
4.2 Freedom and responsibility......Page 51
5. Austin and pragmatics......Page 52
References......Page 53
1. Biographical sketch......Page 55
2. The ‘Bakhtin industry’......Page 57
3. Bakhtin’s view of language......Page 58
3.1 Dialogue......Page 59
3.3 Polyphony......Page 60
3.4 Metalinguistics......Page 61
3.5 Speech genres......Page 64
3.7. Carnival......Page 66
References......Page 67
1. Two perspectives......Page 70
2. Semantic minimalism......Page 71
3. Indexicalism......Page 72
4.1 Overview......Page 74
4.2 Wittgenstein, Austin, Searle, and Travis......Page 75
4.3 Motivations for radical contextualism......Page 77
4.4 Objections to radical contextualism......Page 79
5. Nonindexical contextualism......Page 81
6. Conclusion......Page 84
References......Page 85
2. Historical background......Page 88
3. Basic tenets......Page 90
4. Deconstruction in literature and linguistics......Page 93
References......Page 94
Epistemology......Page 96
References......Page 98
Epistemology of testimony......Page 99
References......Page 101
1. Introduction......Page 102
2. Foucault and the discursive turn......Page 103
2.1 Discourse as a practice......Page 106
2.2 Discourse, knowledge and power......Page 109
3. The order of discourse......Page 112
4. Rethinking the analytical practice......Page 114
5. Conclusions......Page 117
References......Page 118
H.P. Grice......Page 121
1. Life......Page 122
2.1 Meaning......Page 125
2.2 The conversationalist hypothesis......Page 129
2.3 Rationality......Page 131
3.1 Creature construction......Page 134
3.2 Absolute value (Kantotle)......Page 136
4. Concluding remarks......Page 137
5. Further reading......Page 139
References......Page 140
2. The origins of hermeneutic thinking......Page 142
3. Some aspects of the evolution of hermeneutic thinking......Page 143
5. Linguistics and hermeneutics......Page 144
5.3 Cognitive linguistics......Page 145
References......Page 146
1. Introduction......Page 148
2. Indexical expressions......Page 149
3. Demonstratives, pure indexicals, and essential indexicals......Page 151
4. Indexicals as singular terms......Page 153
5. Indexicals and anaphors......Page 154
6. Indexicals and contexts......Page 165
References......Page 167
2. The principle of extensionality and its failures......Page 170
3. The Frege-Carnap treatment of intensional contexts......Page 171
4. The problem of hybrid contexts......Page 172
5. Intensional constructions in natural language: 
the montagovian paradigm......Page 173
6. Inadequacies of the standard semantics of intensional logic......Page 175
7. Hyperintensionality......Page 176
8. Propositional attitudes and pragmatics......Page 177
References......Page 178
1. The development of modal logic......Page 180
2. Irving Lewis’ contribution......Page 181
3. What is modal logic all about?......Page 182
4. Quantified modal logic......Page 183
5. Tense logic......Page 184
6. From tense logic to pragmatics......Page 185
References......Page 186
1. The meeting of two different approaches to semantics......Page 188
2. The basic notions of Tarski’s semantics......Page 189
3. The scope and limits of Tarski’s semantics......Page 191
4. Generalized quantifiers......Page 192
5. The layers of contexts......Page 193
6. A model-theory for contexts......Page 194
References......Page 195
1. Morris’s behavioristics and pragmatics......Page 197
2. Morris’s pragmatics and Peirce’s pragmaticism: 
Towards a ‘behavioral semiotic’......Page 202
3. Pragmatic philosophy in the United States......Page 209
4. Pragmatics, signs and values......Page 212
References......Page 216
2. Principles......Page 219
3. The basis: Predicate logic and model theory......Page 220
4. Semantic types......Page 222
5. Lambda abstraction and lambda conversion......Page 224
6. Quantifiers......Page 225
7. Intensionality......Page 226
8. Contexts......Page 229
9. List of some frequently used symbols......Page 231
References......Page 233
2. History and basic tenets of the phenomenological movement......Page 234
3. Phenomenology, linguistics, and the social sciences......Page 236
References......Page 238
Philosophy of action......Page 239
References......Page 244
1. Introduction......Page 245
2. Natural language......Page 247
4. Programmatic theories......Page 248
References......Page 250
2. The mind–body problem......Page 252
3. The problem of intentionality or the status of folk psychology......Page 254
4. Psychosemantics......Page 256
5. Cognitive pragmatics......Page 257
References......Page 259
1. Some logical problems......Page 261
2. The emergence of possible worlds semantics......Page 262
3. Key concepts of possible worlds semantics......Page 264
4. From possible worlds semantics to pragmatics......Page 265
References......Page 268
1.1 Gottlob Frege......Page 270
1.2 Bertrand Russell......Page 273
1.3 John Searle......Page 275
1.4 Taking stock......Page 277
1.5 Saul Kripke......Page 278
2.1 Russell again......Page 282
2.2 Peter Strawson......Page 286
2.3 Keith Donnellan......Page 288
3. One further issue: semantics versus pragmatics......Page 291
References......Page 294
1. The Basics......Page 297
2. Short history and key names......Page 299
3. Brief comparison with other approaches to linguistic meaning......Page 300
4. Truth-conditional semantics and pragmatics......Page 301
4.1 Indexicality......Page 302
4.2 Non-truth-conditional aspects of semantics......Page 303
References......Page 304
1. Origins......Page 306
2 Habermas’ universal pragmatics.......Page 307
3. Apel’s transcendental pragmatics.......Page 309
References......Page 312
1. Biographical sketch......Page 314
2. General characteristics of Wittgenstein’s conception of philosophy......Page 315
3. The Tractatus and the picture-theory of meaning......Page 316
4. Logical constants and the doctrine of saying and showing......Page 318
5. Wittgenstein’s later philosophy......Page 319
6. Influence......Page 323
References......Page 325
Index......Page 326
The series Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights......Page 336