The Nature of Consciousness

Piero Scaruffi

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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"

 

18. Pragmatics: What We Speak

  1. The Use of Language
  2. Language as Cooperation
  3. The Logic of Speech Acts
  4. The Logic of Relevance
  5. Narrating

Further Reading (Click here for reviews of these books)

Austin, John Langshaw: HOW TO DO THINGS WITH WORDS (Oxford Univ Press, 1962)

Bruner, Jerome: ACTUAL MINDS POSSIBLE WORLDS (Cambridge Univ Press, 1986)

Davidson, Donald: INQUIRIES INTO TRUTH AND INTERPRETATION (Clarendon Press, 1974)

Davis, Steven: PRAGMATICS (Oxford University Press, 1991)

Gazdar, Gerald: PRAGMATICS (Academic Press, 1979)

Green, Georgia: PRAGMATICS (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996)

Grice,  Paul: STUDIES IN THE WAY OF WORDS (Harvard Univ Press, 1989)

Levinson, Stephen: PRAGMATICS (Cambridge Univ Press, 1983)

Sacks, Harvey: "Lectures on Conversation, Volumes I and II" (Wiley, 1967)

Sadock, Jerrold: TOWARD A LINGUISTIC THEORY OF SPEECH ACTS (Academic Press, 1974)

Sadock, Jerrold: AUTOLEXICAL SYNTAX (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1991)

Searle, John: SPEECH ACTS (Cambridge Univ Press, 1969)

Searle, John: EXPRESSION AND MEANING (Cambridge Univ Press, 1979)

Sperber, Dan & Wilson, Deirdre: RELEVANCE, COMMUNICATION AND COGNITION (Blackwell, 1995)

Wittegenstein, Ludwig: PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS (1958)