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This book provides a good overview of philosophical and cognitive approaches to language use and meaning. A synthesis of such approaches leads to a dynamic concept of pragmatic meaning which is on the one hand grounded in cognition and motivated by linguistic and cultural convention and, on the other, creates a framework for studying the interactive and social dimensions of the development of meaning in linguistic communication. Through an experientialist approach based on connectionist models, the author shows that by internalizing pragmatic meaning people become social agents who reproduce, challenge or change their social parameters during interaction.
Pragmatic Meaning and Cognition is suitable as a course book in Pragmatics and Semantics and of interest to those concerned with cognitive models and dynamic and social aspects of linguistic communication.



Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
1. Theoretical Perspectives on Pragmatic Meaning
13
2. Towards an Experiential Approach to Pragmatic Meaning
42
3. On deixis
65
4. On presupposition
117
5. On Speech Acts
163
6. On Implicature
223
Conclusions
273
Notes
281
References
288
Subject Index
311
Name Index
318