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This edited volume on contextualism and pragmatics is interdisciplinary in character and contains contributions from linguistics, cognitive science and socio-pragmatics. Going beyond conventional contextual matters of truth-conditions and pragmatic intrusion, this text deals with a variety of issues including hyperbole, synonymy, reference, argumentation, schizophrenia, rationality, morality, silence and clinical pragmatics. Contributions also address the semantics/pragmatics debate and show to what extent the theory of contextualism can be applied. This volume is based on a unitary research project financed by the University of Messina and appeals to students and researchers working in linguistics and the philosophy of language.
List of contents
Introduction.- I. Pragmalinguistics.- Chapter 1. Reference in Context.- Chapter 2. For a definition of hyperbole as operative on the scenes of the ancient Greek theatre: situations and lexicon.- Chapter 3. Synonymy and contextual dependence.- II. Performativity and social pragmatics.- Chapter 4. Genre as a context for persuasion: the construction of identities in different forms of institutionalised discourse. A case study.- Chapter 5. Pragmatics, Metaphor Studies and the Challenge of Mental Imagery.- Chapter 6. Material engagement and mediation: two necessary concepts.- Chapter 7. Silence as a meaning framework.- Chapter 8. Schtroumpf: forms of life and forms of talk.- III. Neurocognition and Clinical studies.- Chapter 9. Cognitive-Linguistic Difficulties in COVID-19.- Chapter 10. Reasoning as a tool at the service of our goals.- Chapter 11. When context really matters: the case of schizophrenia.- Chapter 12. Beyond the Meaning of Words: Issues in Neuropragmatics, Clinical Pragmaticsand Schizophrenic Language.- Chapter 13. Moral enhancement and contextualism: some reasons for the unattainability of the program for moralizing people.- Chapter 14. Clinical pragmatics and contextualism.
