Abstract Pragmatics studies the ways in which context contributes to meaning. In his book, Domaneschi discusses the main, classical themes in pragmatics: speaker’s meaning, implicatures, presuppositions, speech acts, explicit and implicit meaning distinction, figurative language, politeness rules, etc. Domaneschi also…
Abstract The issue of translation has been pivotal in analytical philosophy of language because it is strictly bound to the problem of meaning. The aim of the paper is introducing and discussing the main translation theories, showing the limits of…
Pubblichiamo qui sopra i video degli interventi di Elisabetta Gola e Vincenzo Fano al Cagliari-Urbino Workshop “Metafora e Argomentazione”, tenutosi a Cagliari il 13/14 giugno 2012 presso il Dipartimento di Pedagogia, Psicologia, Filosofia e patrocinato da “APhEx. Portale italiano di…
Abstract For a long time irony has been considered as an antiphrastic mechanism, as saying the opposite of what you mean. The book Irony in Language and Thought. A Cognitive Science Reader (2007), edited by Gibbs and Colston, aims at…
Abstract Donald Davidson (1917-2003) was one of the most important analytical philosophers of the 20th century, not only because of the wide range of themes he covered (such as philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, theory of truth, theory of…
Abstract Claudia Bianchi’s book, Pragmatica cognitiva. I meccanismi della comunicazione (2009), provides the reader with a reasoned map of the main stances held by the scholars investigating our beliefs and expectations in the attribution of meaning to others’ words. By…