Explorations in Pragmatics

This collection of papers embodies the dynamism and diversity of the field of pragmatics. Its authors represent ten different countries and exemplify research across all aspects of pragmatics, along with the interrelations between pragmatics proper and such neighboring disciplines as cognitive psychology, philosophy of language, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and communication. Recent theoretical and empirical advances in these fields have motivated scholars to reexamine and revise some of the central tenets of pragmatics, and it is this reexamination which lies at the heart of the papers in this volume.

Introduction	p. 1
Philosophical and Linguistic Aspects
What is language: Some preliminary remarks	p. 7
Toward a Fregean pragmatics: Voraussetzung, Nebengedanke, Andeutung	p. 39
Cognitive Aspects
The role of explicature in communication and in intercultural communication	p. 73
Illocutionary constructions: Cognitive motivation and linguistic realization	p. 95
"A good Arab is not a dead Arab - a racist incitement": On the accessibility of negated concepts	p. 129
Intercultural Aspects
Developing pragmatics interculturally	p. 165
Formulaic language in English Lingua Franca	p. 191
Language evolution, pragmatic inference, and the use of English as a lingua franca	p. 219
On non-reductionalist intercultural pragmatics and methodological procedure	p. 257
From downgrading to (over) intensifying: a pragmatic study in English and French	p. 287
Toward a universal notion of face for a universal notion of cooperation	p. 313
Index	p. 345
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