Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy

"Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy" is a scholarly book that explores the close connection between pragmatics and philosophy. It argues that advancements in one of these fields bring significant benefits to the other. The book is divided into two main parts: The first part, "Theoretical Approaches to Philosophy of Language," includes contributions from philosophers of language addressing various aspects of language, including connectors, intentional contexts, and implicit indirect reports. The second part, "Pragmatics in Discourse," offers more empirical and application-oriented contributions that deal with the pragmatics of discourse, argumentation, the relationship between pragmatics and law, as well as context. The perspectives in this book are largely based on the Gricean idea that the speaker's intention is central to the assignment of meaning to utterances, regardless of whether they pertain to sentence structures or larger discourse units.