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Author:   Alessandro Capone
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Volume:   8
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   6.978kg
ISBN:  

9783319410777

ISBN 10:   3319410776
Pages:   364
Publication Date:   18 November 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Putting the threads together.- On the social practice of indirect reports.- On the (complicated) relationship between direct and indirect reports.- Indirect reports as language games.- Indirect reports and footing.- Reporting non-serious speech.- Indirect reports and slurring.- Indirectly reporting and translating slurring utterances.- Belief reports and pragmatic intrusion (the case of null appositives).- The pragmatics of attitudes ‘de se’.- Consequences of the pragmatics of ‘de se’.- Impure ‘de se’ thoughts and pragmatics (and how this is relevant to pragmatics and IEM).- Attributions of propositional attitude and pragmatic intrusion.- Simple sentences, substitution and embedding explicatures (the case of implicit indirect reports).- General Conclusion.

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The fourteen chapters of the book provide a logical and thorough source of information on indirect reports. The author provides many examples in every chapter and gives the interested researchers a good incentive to read and understand the concepts discussed. ... a valuable source for graduate and undergraduate students, their instructors, and researchers. The book is recommended to all those who are interested in pragmatics, linguistics, syntax, and also to those who wish to do further research in the area. (Azizeh Chalak, International Journal of Language Studies, Vol. 11 (1), January, 2017)

The Pragmatics of Indirect Reports casts new light on the notoriously difficult issue of indirect reports. ... This book is excellent and thought-provoking ... The Pragmatics of Indirect Reports is a timely and welcome contribution, and will be of great interest not only to scholars working in the field of pragmatics, but also to those interested in the philosophy of language. ... a useful and substantial volume, which will also inspire future researchers to undertake further explorations on this subject. (Vahid Parvaresh, Australian Journal of Linguistics, May, 2017) The fourteen chapters of the book provide a logical and thorough source of information on indirect reports. The author provides many examples in every chapter and gives the interested researchers a good incentive to read and understand the concepts discussed. ... a valuable source for graduate and undergraduate students, their instructors, and researchers. The book is recommended to all those who are interested in pragmatics, linguistics, syntax, and also to those who wish to do further research in the area. (Azizeh Chalak, International Journal of Language Studies, Vol. 11 (1), January, 2017)

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