Exploring Contextualism and Performativity: The Environment Matters (Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 30) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3031125428 ISBN 13: 9783031125423

Publisher: Springer, 2022

Synopsis

This edited volume on contextualism and pragmatics is interdisciplinary in character and contains contributions from linguistics, cognitive science and socio-pragmatics. Going beyond conventional contextual matters of truth-conditions and pragmatic intrusion, this text deals with a variety of issues including hyperbole, synonymy, reference, argumentation, schizophrenia, rationality, morality, silence and clinical pragmatics. Contributions also address the semantics/pragmatics debate and show to what extent the theory of contextualism can be applied.  This volume is based on a unitary research project financed by the University of Messina and appeals to students and researchers working in linguistics and the philosophy of language. 

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About the Author

Alessandro Capone has a Doctorate in linguistics (University of Oxford) and a doctorate in philosophy of language (University of Palermo).  He is full professor in linguistics and also in philosophy of language.  He is a series editor for Springer, an editor for Intercultural Pragmatics, author of five monographs, a book of poems, editor of fourteen international volumes, and papers published in top international journals. He is a board member of numerous international journals.

Dr. Assunta Penna is a Doctorate of the University of Messina and is a doctorial student of the University of Salerno.  She is employed at the University of Messina and responsible for research coordination. She has written a number of research papers.

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This edited volume on contextualism and pragmatics is interdisciplinary in character and contains contributions from linguistics, cognitive science and socio-pragmatics. Going beyond conventional contextual matters of truth-conditions and pragmatic intrusion, this text deals with a variety of issues including hyperbole, synonymy, reference, argumentation, schizophrenia, rationality, morality, silence and clinical pragmatics. Contributions also address the semantics/pragmatics debate and show to what extent the theory of contextualism can be applied.  This volume is based on a unitary research project financed by the University of Messina and appeals to students and researchers working in linguistics and the philosophy of language. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3031125428
• ISBN 13: 9783031125423
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 253
• Editor: Capone Alessandro, Penna Assunta