Language Use

Language Use offers a philosophical examination of the basic conceptual framework of pragmatic theory, and contrasts this framework with detailed descriptions of our everyday practices of language use. While the results should be highly relevant to pragmatics, the investigation is not a contribution to pragmatic theory. Drawing on Ludwig Wittgenstein's approach to philosophical problems, Language Use brings out the relevance of Wittgenstein's methods to fundamental problems in central pragmatic fields of research such as deixis, implicatures, speech acts and presuppositions.

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PAR SEGERDAHL

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Preface - Introduction - PART 1: DEIXIS - Language and Context - The Pragmatic Account of Deixis - Context-Dependence - Ironical Use of Indexical Expressions - PART 2: CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE - The Semantic Reading and Conversational Implicature - Literal Meaning - The Pragmatic Notion of Order - General Principles of Rationality as a Basis for Language Use - Formal Pragmatics - PART 3: SPEECH ACTS - The Speaker-Hearer Scheme of Communication - Speech Acts versus Language Games - Language vs Languages and Philosophy vs Linguistics - Intentions and Beliefs as Conditions for Use - The Semantic Reading and the Notion of Indirect Speech - PART 4: PRESUPPOSITION - The Notion of Presupposition in Pragmatics - Presuppositions and Methods of Linguistics - Defeasiblity and the Projection Problem - Bibliography - Index