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73The pragmatics of quotation, explicatures and modularity of mindPragmatics and Society 4 (3): 259-284. 2013.This paper presents a purely pragmatic account of quotation which, it is argued, will be able to accommodate all relevant linguistic phenomena. Given that it is more parsimonious to explain the data by reference to pragmatic principles only than to explain them by reference to both pragmatic and semantic principles, as is common in the literature, I conclude that the account of quotation I present is to be preferred to the more standard accounts (including the alternative theories of quotation, …Read more
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Speech acts (definition and classification)In Alex Barber (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Elsevier. 2005.
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469semantic minimalism and moderte contextualism
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1979Barack Obama’s South Carolina SpeechJournal of Pragmatics 42. 2010.Analysis of Barack Obama's rhetorical strategies
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703The attributive/referential distinction, pragmatics, modularity of mind and modularization.Australian Journal of Linguistics 31 (2). 2011.attributive/referential. Pragmatic intrusion.
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722Review of Higginbotham ed. Speaking of events (review)Linguistics 39 (6). 2001.review of Higginbotham et al. A Davidsonian approach.
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650Consequences of the pragmatics of 'de se'In Alessandro Capone & Neil Feit (eds.), Attitudes 'de se': linguistics, epistemology and metaphysics, . 2013.IEM, 'de se', pragmatic intrusion
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38The role of pragmatics in (re)constructing the rational law-makerPragmatics and Cognition 21 (2): 399-414. 2013.The recent debate on pragmatics and the law has found ways to circumvent an important distinction, originally drawn by Dascal and Wróblewski, between the historical law-maker, the current law-maker, and the ideal/rational law-maker.1 By insisting on the relationship between the rational law-maker and contextualism and textualism, I want to redress this fault in current discussions. In this paper, I start with general considerations on pragmatics, intentionality in ordinary conversation, and inte…Read more
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25Perspectives on Linguistic Pragmatics (edited book)Springer. 2013.The paper questions the assumption (widespread in semantic—and indeed pragmatic—theory) that linguistic expressions have meaning in virtue of possessing semantic properties/content. Problems created by this assumption are discussed ...
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132Indirect reports as language gamesPragmatics and Cognition 20 (3): 593-613. 2012.In this chapter I deal with indirect reports in terms of language games. I try to make connections between the theory of language games and the theory of indirect reports, in the light of the issue of clues and cues. Indirect reports are based on an interplay of voices. The voice of the reporter must allow hearers to ‘reconstruct’ the voice of the reported speaker. Ideally, it must be possible to separate the reporter’s voice from that of the reported speaker. When we analyze the language game o…Read more
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1Stati, Sorin, Principi di analisi argomentativa (2002) (review)Argumentation 17 (3): 347-350. 2003.
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783The pragmatics of pronominal clitics and propositional attitudesIntercultural Pragmatics 10 (3): 459-485. 2013.pronominal clitics, pragmatics and propositional attitudes.
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |