Possibilities and Limitations of Pragmatics

1. Acknowledgements; 2. List of Contributors; 3. Introduction; 4. Context change and its consequences for a theory of natural language (by Ballmer, Thomas T.); 5. Semantic constraints on relevance (by Brockway, Diane); 6. The problem of appropriateness in pragmatic development (by Camaioni, Luigia); 7. Language acquisition, psychological dualism and the definition of pragmatics (by Campbell, Robin N.); 8. Pragmatic issues in the construction of recent history from interview narratives (by Cicourel, Aaron V.); 9. Pragmatics and pragmatism (by Cooper, David E.); 10. Idiomaticity as a problem of pragmatics (by Coulmas, Florian); 11. Contextualism (by Dascal, Marcelo); 12. Causatives (by Davis, Steven); 13. How to make and understand a request (by Ervin-Tripp, Susan M.); 14. I'll bet you $10 that betting is not a speech act (by Fotion, Nicholas); 15. Seven sins of pragmatics: Theses about speech act theory, conversational analysis, linguistics and rhetoric (by Franck, Dorothea); 16. Attributing mental states: A second look at mother-child interaction (by Gelder, Beatrice de); 17. How to combine speech act theory with formal semantics: A new account of Searle's concept of proposition (by Gochet, Paul); 18. Answering as decision making: A new way of doing pragmatics (by Grewendorf, Gunther); 19. Political determinants of pragmatic and sociolinguistic choices (by Haberland, Hartmut); 20. Pragmatic considerations within a text-theoretical framework (by Heydrich, W.); 21. Pragmatical grammar and the pragmatics of grammar (by Hindelang, Gotz); 22. On insisting (by Hundsnurscher, Franz); 23. Non-truth-conditional quantification (by Kock, Christian); 24. Pragmatically based grammar (by Kummer, Werner); 25. On the delimitation of semantics and the characterization of meaning: Some remarks (by Latraverse, Francois); 26. Pragmatics and conversational rhetoric (by Leech, Geoffrey N.); 27. Pragmatics, language games, questions and answers (by Leonardi, Paolo); 28. The essential inadequacies of speech act models of dialogue (by Levinson, Stephen C.); 29. Grammar, logic and rhetoric in a pragmatic perspective (by Morpurgo-Tagliabue, Guido); 30. Common problems in the theory of anaphora and the theory of discourse (by Oehrle, Richard T.); 31. Classroom verbal interaction: A conversational analysis (by Orletti, Franca); 32. A goal analysis of some pragmatic aspects of language (by Parisi, Domenico); 33. Answers, replies and reactions (by Poggi, Isabella); 34. On Kripke on Donnellan (by Recanati, Francois); 35. Phenomenological analysis of language and its application to time and tense (by Schnelle, Helmut); 36. Coherence as a pragmatic concept (by Sorensen, Viggo); 37. Pragmatics and causal theoretic aspects of semantics (by Stampe, Dennis); 38. How to be a referent (by Travis, Charles); 39. On the art of deception: How to lie while saying the truth (by Vincent Marrelli, Jocelyne); 40. On the formal treatment of illocutionary force indicators (by Zaefferer, Dietmar); 41. References; 42. Index