Exploring Contextualism and Performativity: The Environment Matters

ISBN-13: 9783031125423 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 243 str.

Alessandro Capone; Assunta Penna

Opis

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. 

Spis treści

0. Introduction

Alessandro Capone, Assunta Penna

I. Pragmalinguistics

- Chapter 1. Reference in Context. Alessandro Capone

- Chapter 2. For a definition of hyperbole as operative on the scenes of the ancient Greek

theatre: situations and lexicon. Paola Radici Colace

- Chapter 3. Synonymy and contextual dependence. Grazia Basile

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. Francesca Santulli

- Chapter 5. Pragmatics, Metaphor Studies and the Challenge of Mental Imagery. Stefana

Garello, Marco Carapezza

- Chapter 6. Material engagement and mediation: two necessary concepts. Francesco Parisi

- Chapter 7. Silence as a meaning framework. Antonia Cava

- Chapter 8. Schtroumpf: forms of life and forms of talk. Assunta Penna

III. Neurocognition and Clinical studies

- Chapter 9. Cognitive-Linguistic Difficulties in COVID-19. Louise Cummings

- Chapter 10. Reasoning as a tool at the service of our goals. Amelia Gangemi

- Chapter 11. When context really matters: the case of schizophrenia. Valentina Cardella

- Chapter 12. Beyond the Meaning of Words: Issues in Neuropragmatics, Clinical

Pragmatics and Schizophrenic Language. Rosalia Cavalieri, Antonino Bucca

- Chapter 13. Moral enhancement and contextualism: some reasons for the unattainability of

the program for moralizing people. Consuelo Luverà

- Chapter 14. Clinical pragmatics and contextualism. Roberto Graci

O autorze

Alessandro Capone has a Doctorate in linguistics (University of Oxford) and a doctorate in philosophy of language (University of Palermo). He is full professor of linguistics. He is also a series editor for Springer, an editor for Intercultural Pragmatics, author of five monographs and three books of poems, editor of 16 international volumes, and author of papers published in top international journals. He is a board member of numerous international journals

Assunta Penna is Ph.D in Cognitive Sciences (University of Messina). Among her main research interests are: media languages, digitalization of public administrations; women and the media; Internet Studies. She has written a number of research papers.