The Aesthetics of Communication Pragmatics and Beyond

AESTHETICIZING PRAGMATICS The Gamut of Pragmatics Pragmatics emerged among the sciences of language at the end of the 1960's in reaction to certain totalizing models in linguistics: structuralism (primarily in Europe) and generative grammar (initially in the United States). Certain disciples of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parret, H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1993, 1993
Edition:1st ed. 1993
Series:Library of Rhetorics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Aestheticizing Pragmatics
  • The Gamut of Pragmatics
  • Homo Economicus and Homo Sociologicus
  • Antilope, Albertine and Penelope: Three Little Ontologies
  • Modus Logicus and Modus Aestheticus
  • 1 Strategic Rationality
  • 1. Philia and Ens
  • 2. Calculus and Manipulation
  • 3. The Art of War or Kriegskunst
  • 4. Games of Society and Games of Culture
  • 2 Time, That Great Sculptor
  • 1. Saying Time
  • 2. Sensing Time
  • 3. Remembering Time
  • 4. Epilogue: Suffering Time
  • 3 Abductive Understanding
  • 1. Intuition
  • 2. Presumption
  • 3. Habit
  • 4. Sensibility
  • 4 Reasonable Pathos
  • Prolegomena: The Discursive Economy of Pathos
  • 2. The Logic of Sentiments
  • 3. The Reasons of Passion
  • 4. The Reasons for Desiring Passion
  • 5 The Sublime and the Ambiance of Seduction
  • 1. Hypostasis and Critique of the Sublime
  • 2. The Schema of Aesthetic Values
  • 3. The (Sublime) Ambiance of Seduction
  • 6 The Attitude of Good Taste
  • 1. Understanding the Acceptable
  • 2. Desiring the Obligatory
  • 3. The Royal Way
  • 7 Communicating Through Aisthesis
  • 1. The Pursuit and Crisis of Foundations
  • 2. The Argumentative and Communicative Community
  • 3. The Affective Community
  • 4. Socializing the Sensible, Sensibilizing the Social