Foreword
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Jacques Moeschler
is Professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of Geneva, where he teaches semantics and pragmatics. His main area of research is the semantics and pragmatics of temporal reference, causation, pragmatic connectives, and negation. He is the author of several books on pragmatics in French, one of which isJacques Moeschler Dictionnaire encyclopédique de pragmatique , Paris, Seuil, 1994 (with Anne Reboul).
Abstract
For this special issue of Intercultural Pragmatics, we have selected articles by authors who were trained in the French tradition in pragmatics (hereafter FTP). Some had been students of the main figure in FTP, Oswald Ducrot. However, none of the articles are truly representative of the current state of FTP, not only because the contributors' scientific paths have taken them in different directions, but also because the influence of FTP has been in decline.
About the author
Jacques Moeschler is Professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of Geneva, where he teaches semantics and pragmatics. His main area of research is the semantics and pragmatics of temporal reference, causation, pragmatic connectives, and negation. He is the author of several books on pragmatics in French, one of which is Dictionnaire encyclopédique de pragmatique, Paris, Seuil, 1994 (with Anne Reboul).
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Articles in the same Issue
- Foreword
- The French tradition in pragmatics: From structuralism to cognitivism
- Pragmatic inference and argumentation in intercultural communication
- Intercultural aspects of the speech act of promising: Western and African practices
- Intercultural pragmatics and the clash of civilizations: Western and Muslim interactions before and since 9/11
- Dealing with contradiction in a communicative context: A cross-cultural study
- Contributors to this issue
Articles in the same Issue
- Foreword
- The French tradition in pragmatics: From structuralism to cognitivism
- Pragmatic inference and argumentation in intercultural communication
- Intercultural aspects of the speech act of promising: Western and African practices
- Intercultural pragmatics and the clash of civilizations: Western and Muslim interactions before and since 9/11
- Dealing with contradiction in a communicative context: A cross-cultural study
- Contributors to this issue