Critical Pragmatics: An Inquiry into Reference and Communication - Hardcover

Korta, Kepa; Perry, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521764971 ISBN 13: 9780521764971

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Explains why critical pragmatics provides insight into how language study fits within the broader picture of human thought and action.

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About the Authors

Kepa Korta is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country. His work has been focused on the study of dialogue, the implicit/explicit distinction, and the semantics/pragmatics interface. His research fields include the philosophy of language, semantics and pragmatics, and the philosophy of action. He has authored a number of books and papers, and recently co-authored with John Perry several works on pragmatics in Mind and Language, Synthese, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He is currently director of the Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language and Information (ILCLI) of the University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastian.

John Perry is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. He is the author of The Problem of the Essential Indexical (1993; 2000), Reference and Reflexivity (2001), Knowledge, Possibility and Consciousness (2001) and Identity, Personal Identity and the Self (2002), and co-author (with Jon Barwise) of Situations and Attitudes (1983).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521764971
• ISBN 13: 9780521764971
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192