The Pragmatics of Indirect Reports Socio-philosophical Considerations
This monograph on indirect reports offers insights on the semantics/pragmatics interface and a refinement of the notion of explicature. The volume is written in an engaging style and guides the reader through the theoretical problems and their ramifications. The thorniest problem in the study of ind...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2016, 2016
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016 |
| Series: | Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Putting the threads together
- On the social practice of indirect reports
- On the (complicated) relationship between direct and indirect reports
- Indirect reports as language games
- Indirect reports and footing
- Reporting non-serious speech
- Indirect reports and slurring
- Indirectly reporting and translating slurring utterances
- Belief reports and pragmatic intrusion (the case of null appositives)
- The pragmatics of attitudes ‘de se’
- Consequences of the pragmatics of ‘de se’
- Impure ‘de se’ thoughts and pragmatics (and how this is relevant to pragmatics and IEM)
- Attributions of propositional attitude and pragmatic intrusion
- Simple sentences, substitution and embedding explicatures (the case of implicit indirect reports)
- General Conclusion