The Pragmatics of Propositional Attitude Reports
Author | : Katarzyna Jaszczolt |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2021-10-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780585474472 |
ISBN-13 | : 0585474478 |
Rating | : 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: This volume, the fourth in the Current Research in Semantics/Pragmatics Interface series, is a collection of nine papers dealing with the topic of reporting on beliefs and other attitudes, and in particular with the issue of the semantics-pragmatics boundary dispute which is the core topic of the current research in the field. Written by highly-regarded philosophers of language and linguists working on theoretical semantics and pragmatics, it brings together works in the mainstream tradition of logical form and the contextualism-anticontextualism debate and the research on the role of intentions, conventions, goals, plans and cultural stereotypes in attitude ascriptions. The editor's introductory chapter gives a valuable overview of the work, discussing the importance of all these aspects of propositional attitude research and stressing their compatibility and interdependence.