Perspectives on Pragmatics and Philosophy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Capone, Alessandro (Editor), Lo Piparo, Franco (Editor), Carapezza, Marco (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 1
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Pragmatism.; Linguistics.; Philosophy, general.; Linguistics, general.

This book is about the pragmatics of language and it illustrates how pragmatics transcends the boundaries of linguistics. This volume covers Gricean pragmatics as well as topics including: conversation and collective belief, the norm of assertion, speech acts, what a context is, the distinction betw...