Exploring Contextualism and Performativity The Environment Matters
This edited volume on contextualism and pragmatics is interdisciplinary in character and contains contributions from linguistics, cognitive science and socio-pragmatics. Going beyond conventional contextual matters of truth-conditions and pragmatic intrusion, this text deals with a variety of issues...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- I. Pragmalinguistics
- Chapter 1. Reference in Context
- Chapter 2. For a definition of hyperbole as operative on the scenes of the ancient Greek theatre: situations and lexicon
- Chapter 3. Synonymy and contextual dependence
- II. Performativity and social pragmatics
- Chapter 4. Genre as a context for persuasion: the construction of identities in different forms of institutionalised discourse. A case study
- Chapter 5. Pragmatics, Metaphor Studies and the Challenge of Mental Imagery
- Chapter 6. Material engagement and mediation: two necessary concepts
- Chapter 7. Silence as a meaning framework
- Chapter 8. Schtroumpf: forms of life and forms of talk
- III. Neurocognition and Clinical studies
- Chapter 9. Cognitive-Linguistic Difficulties in COVID-19
- Chapter 10. Reasoning as a tool at the service of our goals
- Chapter 11. When context really matters: the case of schizophrenia
- Chapter 12. Beyond the Meaning of Words: Issues in Neuropragmatics, Clinical Pragmaticsand Schizophrenic Language
- Chapter 13. Moral enhancement and contextualism: some reasons for the unattainability of the program for moralizing people
- Chapter 14. Clinical pragmatics and contextualism