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Table of contents
Acknowledgementsv
List of Contributorsviii
Introduction1
Context change and its consequences for a theory of natural language17 Semantic constraints on relevance57 The problem of appropriateness in pragmatic development79 Language acquisition, psychological dualism and the definition of pragmatics93 Pragmatic issues in the construction of recent history from interview narratives105 Pragmatics and pragmatism123 Idiomaticity as a problem of pragmatics139 How to make and understand a request195 I'll bet you $10 that betting is not a speech act211 Seven sins of pragmatics: Theses about speech act theory, conversational analysis, linguistics and rhetoric225 Attributing mental states: A second look at mother-child interaction237 How to combine speech act theory with formal semantics: A new account of Searle's concept of proposition251 Answering as decision making: A new way of doing pragmatics263 Political determinants of pragmatic and sociolinguistic choices285 Pragmatic considerations within a text-theoretical framework313 Pragmatical grammar and the pragmatics of grammar331 Non-truth-conditional quantification359 Pragmatically based grammar371 On the delimitation of semantics and the characterization of meaning: Some remarks399 Pragmatics and conversational rhetoric413 Pragmatics, language games, questions and answers443 The essential inadequacies of speech act models of dialogue473 Grammar, logic and rhetoric in a pragmatic perspective493 Common problems in the theory of anaphora and the theory of discourse509 Classroom verbal interaction: A conversational analysis531 A goal analysis of some pragmatic aspects of language551 Answers, replies and reactions569 On Kripke on Donnellan593 Phenomenological analysis of language and its application to time and tense631 Coherence as a pragmatic concept657 Pragmatics and causal theoretic aspects of semantics683 On the art of deception: How to lie while saying the truth749 On the formal treatment of illocutionary force indicators779 References799
Index833
