Introduction

pp.：  1 – 7

I. Community and Communication, Meaning and Understanding

pp.：  7 – 17

Anti-Individualism, Responsibility, Deference, and Dissembling

pp.：  17 – 19

Meaning and Indexicality in Communication

pp.：  19 – 33

How Do We Know that What We Mean is Understood? Hypothesis and Warranty of Uptake in Conversation

pp.：  33 – 49

II. Types of Pretending to Communicate

pp.：  49 – 65

Pretending to Refer

pp.：  65 – 67

Pretending to Be Objective

pp.：  67 – 87

How Scientists Argue. Two Case Studies

pp.：  87 – 105

On the Political Message: Pretending to Communicate

pp.：  105 – 120

Pedagogy and Paradox: Teaching Interpretation in a Religious Community

pp.：  120 – 140

III. Pretension to Communicate in Fiction and in Conversation

pp.：  140 – 157

No Conversation without Misrepresentation

pp.：  157 – 159

Edifying Archie or: How to Fool the Reader

pp.：  159 – 170

Pragmatics and Rhetorics: a Collaborative Approach to Con¬versation

pp.：  170 – 189

Con/versation

pp.：  189 – 212

National, Etranger: Two Jammed Shifters

pp.：  212 – 228

IV. Ways and Forces of Pretending to Communicate

pp.：  228 – 237

Indirection, Manipulation and Seduction in Discourse

pp.：  237 – 239

Unrepeatable Sentences: Contextual Influence on Speech and Thought Presentation

pp.：  239 – 255

On Non-Serious Talk: Some Cross-Cultural Remarks on the (Un)importance of (not) Being Earnest

pp.：  255 – 269

Lying as Pretending to Give Information

pp.：  269 – 292

The Description of Lies in Speech Acts Theory

pp.：  292 – 308

Index of Persons

pp.：  308 – 315

Index of Subjects

pp.：  315 – 319

LastPages

pp.：  319 – 325