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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of Contents0. IntroductionAlessandro Capone, Assunta PennaI. Pragmalinguistics- Chapter 1. Reference in Context. Alessandro Capone- Chapter 2. For a definition of hyperbole as operative on the scenes of the ancient Greektheatre: situations and lexicon. Paola Radici Colace- Chapter 3. Synonymy and contextual dependence. Grazia BasileII. Performativity and social pragmatics- Chapter 4. Genre as a context for persuasion: the construction of identities in differentforms of institutionalised discourse. A case study. Francesca Santulli- Chapter 5. Pragmatics, Metaphor Studies and the Challenge of Mental Imagery. StefanaGarello, 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 PennaIII. 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, ClinicalPragmatics and Schizophrenic Language. Rosalia Cavalieri, Antonino Bucca- Chapter 13. Moral enhancement and contextualism: some reasons for the unattainability ofthe program for moralizing people. Consuelo Luverà- Chapter 14. Clinical pragmatics and contextualism. Roberto Graci
