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Asa, Kasher, ed. Pragmatics: Critical concepts. Routledge, 1998.

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Reboul, Anne. La pragmatique aujourd'hui: Une nouvelle science de la communication. Seuil, 1998.

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B, Goodman Russell, ed. Pragmatism: Critical concepts in philosophy. Routledge, 2005.

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Leezenberg, Michiel. Contexts of metaphor: Semantic and conceptual aspects of figurative language interpretation. Institute for Language, Logic and Computation, Universiteit van Amsterdam., 1995.

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1945-, Majluf Nicolás S., ed. The strategy concept and process: A pragmatic approach. 2nd ed. Prentice Hall, 1996.

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Hax, Arnoldo C. The strategy concept and process: A pragmatic approach. Prentice Hall, 1991.

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Hax, Arnoldo C. The strategy concept and process: A pragmatic approach. Prentice-Hall International, 1991.

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Hax, Arnoldo C. The strategy concept and process: A pragmatic approach. 2nd ed. Prentice-Hall International, 1996.

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McNulty, Lorraine T. Semantic-pragmatic language disorder: three case studies with application of selected pragmatic concepts. The Author], 1996.

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Francez, Itamar. Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variation: Qualities and the Grammar of Property Concepts. Oxford University Press, 2017.

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Perlman, Mark. Conceptual Flux: Mental Representation, Misrepresentation, and Concept Change. Springer Netherlands, 2000.

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McKay, Joanna. The official concept of the nation in the former GDR: Theory, pragmatism, and the search for legitimacy. Ashgate, 1998.

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Deuser, Hermann. Was ist Wahrheit anderes als ein Leben fu r eine Idee?: Kierkegaards Existenzdenken und die Inspiration des Pragmatismus : gesammelte Aufsa tze zur Theologie und Religionsphilosophie : fu r Hermann Deuser zum 65. Geburtstag. De Gruyter, 2011.

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Kronfeld, Amichai, and Robert L. Fish. Pragmatics & Cognition: The Concept of Reference in the Cognitive Sciences. John Benjamins Pub Co, 1998.

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At the syntax-pragmatics interface: Verbal underspecification and concept formation in dynamic syntax. Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Kasher, Asa. Pragmatics: Critical Concepts. Routledge, 1997.

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Kasher, Asa. Pragmatics: Critical Concepts. Routledge, 1997.

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Kasher, Asa. Pragmatics: Critical Concepts. Routledge, 1997.

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Kasher, Asa. Pragmatics: Critical Concepts. Routledge, 1997.

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Kasher, Asa. Pragmatics: Critical Concepts. Routledge, 1997.

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Kasher, Asa. Pragmatics: Critical Concepts. Routledge, 1997.

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Gallagher, Shaun. Enactive Intentionality. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794325.003.0004.

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This chapter offers an in-depth discussion of the concept of intentionality from neo-behaviorist, neo-pragmatist, and enactivist perspectives. It argues that intentionality need not be conceived in representationalist terms, and that both phenomenology and pragmatism point to a more basic form of non-derived intentionality—the notion of operative intentionality, which is embodied in motoric, action-related processes, and embedded in socially situated behavior. Concepts of intentionality also reflect specific conceptions of social cognition. The enactive, neo-pragmatic, operative concept of intentionality turns out to be the relevant concept needed to support enactivist and extended mind approaches to understanding mind. Operative (embodied, motoric) intentionality is shown to be the real original or non-derived intentionality generated in our interactions with others.

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Marnie, Binder. Pragmatist Philosophy of History. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666982916.

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The topic of history was not a principal theme of the classical American Pragmatists, but in this book Marnie Binder presents the case for a pragmatist philosophy of history, examining supporting material from William James, John Dewey, F.C.S. Schiller, C.S. Peirce, George Herbert Mead, and Jane Addams. While the thinkers explored here have significant differences among themselves, together they provide distinct contributions to a fuller picture of what guides our selective memory and our present attention, and they indicate how this is all maintained via confirmation in the future. Philosophy needs history to help clarify meanings and concepts; part of the methodology of pragmatism is derived from history, as it is attested over time. History needs philosophy to critically analyze historical data; pragmatic interests influence how we study and record history. A Pragmatist Philosophy of History, therefore, provides a rich context for a method that brings the two disciplines together.

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Fernández-Dols, José-Miguel. Natural Facial Expression. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190613501.003.0024.

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The notion that there are universal facial expressions of basic emotion remains a dominant idea in the study of emotion. Inspired by pragmatics, and based on behavioral ecology and psychological constructionism, this chapter provides an alternative to the concept of facial expression of basic emotion: the concept of natural facial expression. Actual, observable natural facial expressions do not mean self-contained, discrete basic emotions; they are instead related to different components of diverse emotional episodes. Their communicative function is not semantic (e.g., a smile does not means happiness) but pragmatic (e.g., a smile prompts, on the receiver’s side, important inferences about the context and course of the interaction between sender and receiver).

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Pullum, Geoffrey K. Slurs and Obscenities. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198758655.003.0009.

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Words are often assumed to have denotations linking them to concepts, and we use a word with a certain denotation when we want to convey to our interlocutor the concept to which it is linked. Obscene swearwords and offensive slurs reveal the simplistic character of this view. Issues of style, tone, esthetics, etiquette, attitude, and self-presentation arise; semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and anthropology are involved in clarifying them. After surveying some semantic and pragmatic preliminaries, the chapter delves into the lexicography of obscene and offensive terms. There are some flagrant semantic errors in trusted dictionaries. Experienced lexicographers get many simple meanings badly and obviously wrong. Part of the explanation may lie in a desire to distance the dictionary’s authority from the pejorative content. Correcting such entries involves recognizing that words have nonlinguistic properties as well as linguistic ones.

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Félix-Brasdefer, J. César. Interlanguage Pragmatics. Edited by Yan Huang. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697960.013.32.

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This chapter provides an overview and an assessment of central topics in interlanguage pragmatics (ILP). The chapter begins by defining the pragmatics for ILP, followed by a selective account of the main concepts covered in the field, such as pragmatic competence, the distinction between pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics, second-language (L2) pragmatics, pragmatic transfer, pragmatic instruction, and types of pragmatic failure. Then, it describes and evaluates predominant theoretical and methodological approaches, as well as the methods generally used to collect data in ILP. The chapter also reviews research on pragmatic development, including longitudinal and cross-sectional studies, pedagogical intervention, study-abroad (SA) contexts, and pragmatic development as a result of incidental learning. The chapter ends with a discussion of future directions in ILP.

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Smith, Erec. Fat Tactics: The Rhetoric and Structure of the Fat Acceptance Movement. Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2020.

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Fat Tactics: The Rhetoric and Structure of the Fat Acceptance Movement. Lexington Books, 2018.

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Bara, Bruno G. Cognitive Pragmatics. Edited by Yan Huang. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697960.013.14.

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Cognitive pragmatics focuses on the mental states and, to some extent, the mental correlates of the participants of a conversation. The analysis of the mental processes of human communication is based on three fundamental concepts: cooperation, sharedness, and communicative intention. All of the three were originally proposed by Grice in 1975, though each has since been refined by other scholars. The cooperative nature of communication is justified by the evolutionary perspective through which the cooperative reasoning underlying a conversation is explained. Sharedness accounts for the possibility of comprehending non-standard communication such as deceit, irony, and figurative language. Finally, communicative intention presents the unique characteristic of recursion, which is, according to most scientists, a specific trademark of humans among all living beings.

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Maddalena, Giovanni. Philosophy of Gesture: Completing Pragmatists' Incomplete Revolution. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015.

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Philosophy of Gesture: Completing Pragmatists' Incomplete Revolution. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015.

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Goodman, Russel. Pragmatism: Critical Concepts in Philosophy. Routledge, 2005.

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Goodman. Pragmatism: Critical Concepts in Philosophy. Taylor & Francis Group, 2004.

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Goodman. Pragmatism: Critical Concepts in Philosophy. Taylor & Francis Group, 2004.

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Leezenberg, Michiel. Contexts of Metaphor. Elsevier, 2001.

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Parker, Kelly A., and Heather E. Keith. Pragmatist and American Philosophical Perspectives on Resilience. Lexington Books, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978724693.

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The essays in Pragmatist and American Philosophical Perspectives on Resilience offer a survey of the ways that “resilience” is becoming a key concept for understanding our world, as well as providing deeper insight about its specific actual and proposed applications. As a concept with multiple theoretical and practical meanings, “resilience” promises considerable explanatory power. At the same time, current uses of the concept can be diverse and at times inconsistent. The American philosophical tradition provides tools uniquely suited for clarifying, extending, and applying emerging concepts in more effective and suggestive ways. This collection explores the usefulness of theoretical work in American philosophy and pragmatism to practices in ecology, community, rurality, and psychology.

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Bowen, John Richard. Pragmatic Inquiry: Critical Concepts for Social Sciences. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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Bowen, John Richard. Pragmatic Inquiry: Critical Concepts for Social Sciences. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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Bowen, John Richard. Pragmatic Inquiry: Critical Concepts for Social Sciences. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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Bowen, John Richard. Pragmatic Inquiry: Critical Concepts for Social Sciences. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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Goodman. Pragmatism: Critical Concepts in Philosphy Volume 2. Taylor & Francis Group, 2005.

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Identity and Social Transformation: The Central European Pragmatist Forum, Volume Five. Rodopi, 2011.

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Asudeh, Ash, and Gianluca Giorgolo. Enriched Meanings. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198847854.001.0001.

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This book presents a theory of enriched meanings for natural language interpretation. Certain expressions that exhibit complex effects at the semantics/pragmatics boundary live in an enriched meaning space while others live in a more basic meaning space. These basic meanings are mapped to enriched meanings just when required compositionally, which avoids generalizing meanings to the worst case. The theory is captured formally using monads, a concept from category theory. Monads are also prominent in functional programming and have been successfully used in the semantics of programming languages to characterize certain classes of computation. They are used here to model certain challenging linguistic computations at the semantics/pragmatics boundary. Part I presents some background on the semantics/pragmatics boundary, informally presents the theory of enriched meanings, reviews the linguistic phenomena of interest, and provides the necessary background on category theory and monads. Part II provides novel compositional analyses of the following phenomena: conventional implicature, substitution puzzles, and conjunction fallacies. Part III explores the prospects of combining monads, with particular reference to these three cases. The authors show that the compositional properties of monads model linguistic intuitions about these cases particularly well. The book is an interdisciplinary contribution to Cognitive Science: These phenomena cross not just the boundary between semantics and pragmatics, but also disciplinary boundaries between Linguistics, Philosophy and Psychology, three of the major branches of Cognitive Science, and are here analyzed with techniques that are prominent in Computer Science, a fourth major branch. A number of exercises are provided to aid understanding, as well as a set of computational tools (available at the book's website), which also allow readers to develop their own analyses of enriched meanings.

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Lorino, Philippe. Pragmatism and Organization Studies. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198753216.001.0001.

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The development of pragmatist thought (Peirce, James, Dewey, and Mead) in the first half of the twentieth century in the United States deeply impacted political science, semiotics, philosophy, psychology, sociology, education, law. Later intellectual trends (analytical philosophy, structuralism, cognitivism) focusing on rational representations or archetypical models somehow sidelined Pragmatism for three decades. In the world of organizations, they often conveyed the Cartesian dream of rational control, which became the mainstream view in management and organization research. In response to the growing uncertainty and complexity of situations, social sciences have experienced a “pragmatist turn.” Many streams of organization research have criticized the view of organizations as information-processing structures, controlled through rational representations. They share some key theoretical principles: the processual view of organizing as “becoming”; the emphasis on the key role of action; the agential power of objects; the exploratory and inquiring nature of organizing. These are precisely the key theses of pragmatists, who formulated a radical critique of the dualisms which hinder organization studies (thought/action, decision/execution, reality/representation, individual/collective, micro/macro) and developed key concepts applicable to organization studies (inquiry, semiotic mediation, habit, abduction, trans-action, valuation). This book aims to make the pragmatist intellectual framework more accessible to organization and management scholars. It presents some fundamental pragmatist concepts, and their potential application to the study of organizations, drawing conclusions concerning managerial practices, in particular the critique of the Taylorian tradition and the promotion of continuous improvement. To enhance accessibility, each theme is illustrated by real cases experienced by the author.

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Portner, Paul. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199547524.003.0001.

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This chapter develops a framework for trying to understand the nature of mood from the perspective of semantics and pragmatics. It introduces the concept of mood and its subtypes in an intuitive way, and gives a general definition which aims to capture what is essential to the way it figures in both descriptive and theoretical studies of language. It explains the relation between mood and the broader category of modality, and provides essential background on the theories of modality, speech acts, and discourse semantics which will be the frameworks for theories of mood discussed in later chapters.

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Waters, C. Kenneth. Ask Not “What Is an Individual?”. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190636814.003.0005.

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Philosophers of biology typically pose questions about individuation by asking “what is an individual?” For example, we ask: what is a species, what is an organism, and what is a gene? In this chapter, the author presents his account of the gene concept to motivate a more pragmatic approach. Instead of asking “what is a gene?,” he asks, “how do biologists individuate genes?,” “for what purposes?,” and “do their practices of individuating genes serve these purposes?” He proposes that philosophers use this approach when analyzing concepts of organisms and biological individuals. Following philosophical pragmatism, he argues that philosophers should view practices of individuating organisms in terms of a three-place relation: between the world, ideas, and human purposes and actions. He concludes with three lessons: an ontological, an epistemological, and a meta-philosophical lesson, which he suggests apply to philosophy of science generally and to philosophy and metaphysics at large.

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Kecskes, Istvan, ed. The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Pragmatics. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108884303.

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Intercultural pragmatics addresses one of the major issues of human communication in the globalized world: how do people interact with each other in a language other than their native tongue, and with native speakers of the language of interaction? Bringing together a globally-representative team of scholars, this Handbook provides an authoritative overview to this fascinating field of study, as well as a theoretical framework. Chapters are grouped into 5 thematic areas: theoretical foundation, key issues in Intercultural Pragmatics research, the interface between Intercultural Pragmatics and related disciplines, Intercultural Pragmatics in different types of communication, and language learning. It addresses key concepts and research issues in Intercultural Pragmatics, and will trigger fresh lines of enquiry and generate new research questions. Comprehensive in its scope, it is essential reading not only for scholars of pragmatics, but also of discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics, communication, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and second language teaching and learning.

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Mcilroy, Kenneth d. The Pragmatic Leader: A Guide To Mastering Key Management Concepts. iUniverse, 2003.

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Mcilroy, Kenneth D. The Pragmatic Leader: A Guide to Mastering Key Management Concepts. iUniverse, 2004.

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Gallagher, Shaun. Pragmatic Resources for Enactive and Extended Minds. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794325.003.0003.

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This chapter situates the embodied cognition (EC) approaches of extended mind and enactivism in relation to pragmatism. Despite some disagreements, highlighted in Chapter 2, enactivism and extended mind share some common ground in their pragmatist roots. The argument here is not only that pragmatism (especially as found in the work of John Dewey) offers the possibility of rapprochement between these versions of EC, but also that it offers resources for responding to some of the common objections raised against them, involving concepts of causality, constitution, and the ‘mark of the mental’. Responding to these concerns points in the direction of reconceiving the notion of intentionality.

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