Language Use offers a philosophical examination of the basic conceptual framework of pragmatic theory, and contrasts this framework with detailed descriptions of our everyday practices of language use. While the results should be highly relevant to pragmatics, the investigation is not a contribution to pragmatic theory. Drawing on Ludwig Wittgenstein's approach to philosophical problems, Language Use brings out the relevance of Wittgenstein's methods to fundamental problems in central pragmatic fields of research such as deixis, implicatures, speech acts and presuppositions.

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Uppsala University, Sweden

Pär Segerdahl

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PAR SEGERDAHL

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Book Title: Language Use
Book Subtitle: A Philosophical Investigation into the Basic Notions of Pragmatics
Authors: Pär Segerdahl
Series Title: Studies in Social Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375093
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1996
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-64611-3Published: 18 December 1995
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37509-3Published: 18 December 1995
Series ISSN: 2946-9988
Series E-ISSN: 2946-9996
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 240
Topics: Philosophy of Language, Linguistics, general, Semantics, Pragmatics

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

Presupposition

The Notion of Presupposition in Pragmatics

Presuppositions and Methods of Linguistics

Defeasibility and the Projection Problem

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