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Author Korta, Kepa.

Title Critical Pragmatics : an Inquiry into Reference and Communication
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (194 pages)
Contents 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
Summary Explains why critical pragmatics provides insight into how language study fits within the broader picture of human thought and action
Notes 12.3 Semantic content, raw and refined
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-174) and index
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Subject Language and languages -- Philosophy.
Semantics.
Communication.
Reference (Linguistics)
Semantics
semantics.
PHILOSOPHY -- Mind & Body.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Pragmatics.
Communication
Language and languages -- Philosophy
Reference (Linguistics)
Semantics
Kommunikation
Sprache
Referenz Linguistik
Pragmatik
Kommunikation.
Sprache.
Semantik.
Referenz.
Critical pragmatics.
Communication.
Form Electronic book
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