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• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Dedication
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Chapter 1 The Multidisciplinary Nature of Pragmatics
• 1.1 Pragmatics and its Academic Neighbours
• 1.2 Pragmatics: A Standard Definition
• 1.2.1 Information
• 1.2.2 Encoding
• 1.2.3 Convention
• 1.2.4 Context
• 1.2.5 Use
• 1.3 Pragmatic Concepts and Theories
• 1.3.1 Speech act theory
• 1.3.2 Implicature theory
• 1.3.3 Relevance theory
• 1.3.4 Deixis
• 1.3.4.1 Person and social deixis
• 1.3.4.2 Time deixis
• 1.3.4.3 Place deixis
• 1.3.4.4 Discourse deixis
• 1.3.5 Presupposition
• Notes
• Chapter 2 Theories of Meaning
• 2.1 Approaches to the Study of Meaning
• 2.2 Meaning: A Three-Part Approach
• 2.3 A Referential Approach to Meaning
• 2.3.1 Philosophical foundations: Tarski and Davidson
• 2.3.2 Truth-conditional semantics
• 2.3.3 Referential meaning and other disciplines
• 2.4 A Psychologistic Approach to Meaning
• 2.4.1 The necessity of psychologistic meaning: Chomsky and Fodor
• 2.4.2 Pragmatics, the language of thought and related notions
• 2.4.3 Other disciplines, the language of thought and related notions
• 2.5 A Social Approach to Meaning
• 2.5.1 Discourse analysis and conversation analysis
• Notes
• Chapter 3 Inferences
• 3.1 Pragmatics and Inference
• 3.2 Deductive Inferences
• 3.2.1 Three types of syllogism
• 3.2.2 Deductive inferences and semantic meaning
• 3.2.3 Deduction, reasoning and utterance interpretation
• 3.3 Elaborative Inferences
• 3.3.1 The psychology of elaborative inferences
• 3.3.2 Elaborative inferences, knowledge and AI
• 3.3.3 Elaborative inferences and pragmatics
• 3.4 Conversational Inferences
• 3.4.1 Grice on deriving implicatures
• 3.4.2 Recovering implicatures: The views of other theorists
• 3.4.3 Psychology and conversational inferences
• Notes
• Chapter 4 Relevance Theory
• 4.1 Overview
• 4.2 Relevance and Communication
• 4.3 Relevance and Cognition
• 4.4 A Philosophical Criticism of Relevance Theory
• 4.4.1 Logical positivism: Some background
• 4.4.2 Putnam on positivism
• 4.4.3 The scientific reductionism of relevance theory
• 4.4.3.1 Challenging reductionism 1: Elimination rules
• 4.4.3.2 Challenging reductionism 2: Deduction and comprehension
• 4.4.3.3 Challenging reductionism 3: Functional confirmation
• 4.5 Conclusion
• Notes
• Chapter 5 Pragmatics and Mind
• 5.1 The Need for a Pragmatic Study of Mind
• 5.2 Language and Mind: Some Historical Antecedents
• 5.3 The Modularity of Mind Thesis
• 5.3.1 Representation
• 5.3.2 Computation
• 5.3.3 Organisation
• 5.4 Pragmatics and Modularity
• 5.4.1 Kasher on the modularity of pragmatics
• 5.4.1.1 Pragmatic module
• 5.4.1.2 Pragmatic central system
• 5.4.1.3 Pragmatic interface
• 5.4.2 Wilson and Sperber on the modularity of pragmatics
• 5.5 If not Modularity, then What?
• Notes
• Chapter 6 Argumentation and Fallacies of Reasoning
• 6.1 Pragmatics and Argument
• 6.2 What is an Argument? A Fallacy?
• 6.3 Six Theoretical Frameworks
• 6.4 A Pragmatic Turn in the Study of Argument
• 6.5 Pragma-Dialectics: An Advance in the Study of Argumentation?
• 6.6 Methodology: Reconstruction and Evaluation
• 6.6.1 Reconstruction
• 6.6.2 Evaluation
• Notes
• Chapter 7 Habermas and Pragmatics
• 7.1 Why Study Habermas?
• 7.2 Expanding Reason: Habermas on Positivism
• 7.3 Habermas on Language
• 7.4 Criticising Habermas: A Putnamian Challenge
• 7.5 Conclusion
• Notes
• Chapter 8 Artificial Intelligence and Pragmatics
• 8.1 Why Study Artificial Intelligence?
• 8.2 Pragmatics: Implications for AI
• 8.3 AI on Pragmatics
• 8.3.1 Syntactic and semantic representations
• 8.3.2 Knowledge representation
• 8.3.3 Reasoning
• 8.3.4 Rationality principles
• 8.4 Is AI Possible?
• Notes
• Chapter 9 Language Pathology and Pragmatics
• 9.1 When Pragmatics Goes Wrong
• 9.2 Problems of Definition
• 9.2.1 Speech acts
• 9.2.2 Context
• 9.2.3 Listener knowledge
• 9.2.4 Conversational maxims and implicature
• 9.2.5 Inferences
• 9.2.6 Knowledge
• 9.2.7 Non-literal meaning
• 9.2.8 Deixis
• 9.2.9 Conversation analysis and discourse analysis
• 9.3 Pragmatic Disorders
• 9.3.1 Developmental language disorder
• 9.3.2 Autism
• 9.3.3 Learning disability
• 9.3.4 Left-hemisphere damage
• 9.3.5 Right-hemisphere damage
• 9.3.6 Closed-head injury
• 9.3.7 Alzheimer’s disease
• 9.3.8 Schizophrenia
• 9.4 What can we Learn from Pragmatic Disorders?
• Notes
• Chapter 10 Beyond Disciplines
• 10.1 Multidisciplinary Pragmatics
• 10.2 The Relationship of Other Disciplines to Pragmatics
• 10.2.1 Philosophy
• 10.2.2 Psychology
• 10.2.3 Artificial intelligence
• 10.2.4 Language pathology
• 10.3 The Relationship of Pragmatics to Other Disciplines
• 10.4 New Topics and Disciplines
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index