Critical Pragmatics ：An Inquiry into Reference and Communication

Publication subTitle ：An Inquiry into Reference and Communication

Author： Kepa Korta; John Perry

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 2011

E-ISBN: 9781139097925

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521764971

Subject： H0-05 Language and other subjects the relationship

Keyword：哲学理论

Language： ENG

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Critical Pragmatics

Description

Critical Pragmatics develops three ideas: language is a way of doing things with words; meanings of phrases and contents of utterances derive ultimately from human intentions; and language combines with other factors to allow humans to achieve communicative goals. In this book, Kepa Korta and John Perry explain why critical pragmatics provides a coherent picture of how parts of language study fit together within the broader picture of human thought and action. They focus on issues about singular reference, that is, talk about particular things, places or people, which have played a central role in the philosophy of language for more than a century. They argue that attention to the 'reflexive' or 'utterance-bound' contents of utterances sheds new light on these old problems. Their important study proposes a new approach to pragmatics and should be of wide interest to philosophers of language and linguists.

Chapter

1.1 A conversation at Hondarribia airport

1.2 Three ideas

1.3 The anatomy of an utterance

1.4 Singular reference

1.5 The plan

2 A short history of reference

2.1 Introduction

2.2 One hundred-plus years of reference

2.2.1 From Frege and Russell to the new theory of reference

2.2.2 Two questions

2.2.3 Indexicals

2.3 The problem of cognitive significance

2.4 From Kaplan to utterances

3 Acts, roles, and singular reference

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Acts and actions

3.3 Roles

3.4 Signs and information

3.5 Gricean reference

4 Elements of reference

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Cognition and information: an analogy

4.3 A modest theory of ideas

4.4 Paradigm referential plans

4.4.1 The grammatical intention

4.4.2 The directing intention

4.4.3 The target intention

4.4.4 The path intention

4.5 Examples

5 Demonstratives

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The professor and the portrait

5.3 Forensics

5.4 Walking through Donostia

5.5 Truth-conditions

5.6 Demonstratives and the problems of cognitive significance

5.6.1 Co-reference

5.6.2 No-reference

6 Context sensitivity and indexicals

6.1 Role-contexts

6.2 Indexicals

6.3 Using 'I'

6.3.1 Misidentifying oneself

6.4 Indexicals, dates, and time

6.5 Technology and indexicals

7 Names

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Names and nambiguity

7.3 Networks and reference

7.3.1 Coco-referring

7.3.2 Networks

7.4 Names and roles

7.5 Names as role-coordination devices: examples

7.6 Names and cognitive significance

7.7 The no-reference problem

8 Definite descriptions

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Incomplete descriptions

8.3 Designational truth-conditions and referring*

8.4 Inaccurate descriptions

8.5 Conclusion

9 Implicit reference and unarticulated constituents

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Unarticulated constituents and the supplemental nature of language

9.3 Three kinds of unarticulated constituents

9.3.1 Unarticulated and grammatically incomplete

9.3.2 Unarticulated, grammatically complete, but referentially incomplete

9.3.3 Unarticulated, even though grammatically and referentially complete

9.4 Whence unarticulated constituents?

9.4.1 Deep lexicalization

9.4.2 Logical form

9.5 Are unarticulated constituents a myth?

10 Locutionary content and speech acts

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Locutionary content versus what is said

10.3 Locutionary acts and locutionary content

10.4 Locuted but not said: some examples

10.5 Locutionary versus propositional content

10.6 Conclusion

11 Reference and implicature

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Grice and what is said

11.3 Eros' thirst

Situation I

Situation II

Situation III

11.4 Identity, implicature, and cognitive significance

11.5 The man who has run out of petrol

11.6 The maxim of manner of reference

11.7 Conclusion

12 Semantics, pragmatics, and Critical Pragmatics

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Situating semantics

12.3 Semantic content, raw and refined

12.4 Minimalism, contextualism, and Critical Pragmatics

12.5 Grice's circle

13 Harnessing information

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Content

13.2.1 Informational content

13.2.2 Success-conditions

13.2.3 Harnessing information

13.2.4 Information games

13.3 Propositions and the structure of action

13.4 Coding and classification

13.5 Back to Hondarribia

14 Examples

Bibliography

Index

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