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Intro -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- References -- Part I: Theoretical approaches to philosophy of language -- Semantically Empty Gestures -- 1 Two Theories of Demonstratives -- 2 An Alternative Theory -- 3 Frege's Puzzle -- 4 Further Considerations -- Aboutness and Quantifying Into Intensional Contexts: A Pragmatic Topic/Comment Analysis of Propositional Attitude Statements -- 1 The Grammarian and the Philosopher -- 2 Philosopher Nelson Goodman's Aboutness -- 3 Philosopher W.V. O. Quine: The Argument against Quantifying In -- 4 Linguistic Observations on Topic Noun Phrases -- 5 To Return to the Argument… -- 6 Ralph's Belief Statements: a Pragmatic Analysis (or, why opacity is not needed to resolve inconsistency) -- 7 Conclusions -- APPENDIX A -- References -- Sub-Sententials: Pragmatics or Semantics? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology -- 3 Implicit Demonstratives -- 4 The Role of Demonstrations -- 5 Other Examples -- 6 The Syntactic Ellipsis Objection -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 (A): The Syntactic Ellipsis Assumption -- 6.3 (B): No Syntactic Ellipsis in (1) to (5) -- 7 Stainton's Other Objections -- 7.1 Too Much Ambiguity -- 7.2 No Explanatory Work -- 7.3 Fails a Kripkean Test -- 8 The Assertion of Propositional Fragments -- 9 Conclusion -- References -- An Investigation of a Gricean Account of Free-­Choice or -- 1 Conjunctive Force -- 2 A Gricean derivation of and from or for epistemic possibility -- 3 A problem about epistemic possibility -- 4 An objection from non-monotonic logic -- 5 Other Modals -- References -- Negation as a window on the non-sequential nature of language interpretation and processing -- 1 Introduction -- 2 On the Concealed Pervasiveness of Double-negation Structures -- 3 Expletive Negation in Comparative and Temporal Clauses

This volume provides insight into linguistic pragmatics from the perspective of linguists who have been influenced by philosophy. Theory of Mind and perspectives on point of view are presented along with other topics including: semantics vs. semiotics, clinical pragmatics, explicatures, cancellability of explicatures, interactive language use, reference, common ground, presupposition, definiteness, logophoricity and point of view in connection with pragmatic inference, pragmemes and language games, pragmatics and artificial languages, the mechanism of the form/content correlation from a pragmatic point of view, amongst other issues relating to language use. Relevance Theory is introduced as an important framework, allowing readers to familiarize themselves with technical details and linguistic terminology. This book follows on from the first volume: both contain the work of world renowned experts who discuss theories relevant to pragmatics. Here, the relationship between semantics and pragmatics is explored: conversational explicatures are a way to bridge the gap in semantics between underdetermined logical forms and full propositional content. These volumes are written in an accessible way and work well both as a stimulus to further research and as a guide to less experienced researchers and students who would like to know more about this vast, complex, and difficult field of inquiry