Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Table of contents vi
4. List of Contributors viii
5. Introduction 1
6. Context change and its consequences for a theory of natural language 17
7. Semantic constraints on relevance 57
8. The problem of appropriateness in pragmatic development 79
9. Language acquisition, psychological dualism and the definition of pragmatics 93
10. Pragmatic issues in the construction of recent history from interview narratives 105
11. Pragmatics and pragmatism 123
12. Idiomaticity as a problem of pragmatics 139
13. Contextualism 153
14. Causatives 179
15. How to make and understand a request 195
16. I'll bet you $10 that betting is not a speech act 211
17. Seven sins of pragmatics 225
18. Attributing mental states 237
19. How to combine speech act theory with formal semantics 251
20. Answering as decision making 263
21. Political determinants of pragmatic and sociolinguistic choices 285
22. Pragmatic considerations within a text-theoretical framework 313
23. Pragmatical grammar and the pragmatics of grammar 331
24. On insisting 343
25. Non-truth-conditional quantification 359
26. Pragmatically based grammar 371
27. On the delimitation of semantics and the characterization of meaning 399
28. Pragmatics and conversational rhetoric 413
29. Pragmatics, language games, questions and answers 443
30. The essential inadequacies of speech act models of dialogue 473
31. Grammar, logic and rhetoric in a pragmatic perspective 493
32. Common problems in the theory of anaphora and the theory of discourse 509
33. Classroom verbal interaction 531
34. A goal analysis of some pragmatic aspects of language 551
35. Answers, replies and reactions 569
36. On Kripke on Donnellan 593
37. Phenomenological analysis of language and its application to time and tense 631
38. Coherence as a pragmatic concept 657
39. Pragmatics and causal theoretic aspects of semantics 683
40. How to be a referent 713
41. On the art of deception 749
42. On the formal treatment of illocutionary force indicators 779
43. References 799
44. Index 833