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This book presents papers in honor of Jerry Sadock’s rich legacy in pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar. Highlights of the pragmatics section include Larry Horn on almost barely and assertoric inertia; William Lycan on Sadock’s resolution of the Performadox with truth₁ and truth₂; and Jay Atlas on Moore’s Paradox and the truth value of propositions of belief. Highlights of the Autolexical Grammar section include Fritz Newmeyer’s comparison of the minimalist autolexical and transformational treatments of English nominals; Barbara Abott’s extension of Sadock’s PRO-less syntax to a PRO-less semantics of the infinitival complements of know how; and Haj Ross’s syntactic connections between semantically related English pseudoclefts. Encompassing a range of languages (Aleut Bangla Greenlandic Japanese and a home-based sign language) and extending into psycholinguistics (language acquisition sentence processing and autism) this volume will interest a range of readers from theoretical linguists and philosophers of language to applied linguists and exotic language specialists.

Karl Bühler (1879–1963) was one of the leading theoreticians of language of the twentieth century. Although primarily a psychologist Bühler devoted much of his attention to the study of language and language theory. His masterwork Sprachtheorie (1934) quickly gained recognition in the fields of linguistics semiotics the philosophy of language and the psychology of language. This new edition of the English translation of Bühler’s theory begins with a survey on ‘Bühler’s legacy’ for modern linguistics (Werner Abraham) followed by the Theory of Language and finally with a special ‘Postscript: Twenty-five Years Later …’ (Achim Eschbach). Bühler’s theory is divided into four parts. Part I discusses the four axioms or principles of language research the most famous of which is the first the organon model the base of Bühler's instrumental view of language. Part II treats the role of indexicality in language and discusses deixis as one determinant of speech. Part III examines the symbolic field dealing with context onomatopoeia and the function of case. Part IV deals with the elements of language and their organization (syllabification the definition of the word metaphor anaphora etc).The text is accompanied by an Introduction (Achim Eschbach); Translator's preface (Donald Fraser Goodwin); Glossary of terms; and a Bibliography of cited works.

Geistesgeschichtlich ist die große Vergangenheit des lateinischen Aristotelismus immer noch unbewältigt. Die vorliegende Teiledition eines Cursus philosophicus von 1653/55 [Ms. BU Salamanca 1351-52] dokumentiert den regen Schulbetrieb zu Lockes Zeit. Etwas ‚metaphysische‘ zu betrachten das hieß im Suarezismus es gerade unter Bezug auf unser Denken zu betrachten: quoad nostros conceptus (Arriaga). In diesem erkenntnistheoretischen Sinn ‚metaphysische‘ Abhandlungen sind hier zusammengestellt. Hauptfrage: Hat das Urteil schon diesseits des Wahrheitsbezugs einen eigenen Gegenstandsbezug? Die Psychologie des Urteils erscheint systematisch verknüpft mit der Ontologie des Irrealen (ens rationis ratiocinantis). Der Autor González de Santalla sonst immer nur der Märtyrer der Gesinnungsethik wird als Scholastiker vorgestellt. Die intellektuelle Biographie dieses Jesuiten konzentriert sich auf seine philosophiepolitische Aktivität: Ab 1687 war er der Chef jenes globalen Bildungskonzerns der damals über sechshundert Schulen und Hochschulen unterhielt. Hundert Jahre später war diese Institution die Societas Jesu vom Erdboden verschwunden.

Interessenten: Philosophen Mediävisten Romanisten Theologen Kulturhistoriker

In order to trace Psychologism particularly the 18th-century‚ perception theory of judgment‘ (G. Nuchelmans) a case is made for a fair appreciation of the Aristotelian school philosophy during Locke’s life time. From a hitherto unknown Jesuit Cursus Philosophicus of 1653/55 a substantial portion of its disputations on Logic Psychology and Metaphysics is edited. A remarkable refutation of Suárez’s classical account of the beings of reason reveals the systematic connection between any theory of judgment and the ideas on how to make sense of the chimaeras. This time González de Santalla otherwise famous for his firm stand against ethical Probabilism is presented as an epistemologist. His intellectual biography focuses on the schoolman and on a future Jesuit General‘s (1687-1703) educational policy who tried to keep the standards of school philosophy.

Readers: Scholars interested in mediaeval and modern philosophy in the history of higher education and hispanists.

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific cognitive grammatical social cultural variational interactional or discursive angles this 10th volume focuses on the interface between pragmatics and philosophy and reviews the philosophical background from which pragmatics has taken inspiration and with which it is constantly confronted. It provides the reader with information about authors relevant to the development of pragmatics trends or areas in philosophy that are relevant for the definition of the main concepts in pragmatics or the characterization of its cultural context the neighbouring field of semantics (with particular respect to truth-conditional semantics and some main branches of formal semantics) and recent philosophical debates that involve pragmatic notions such as indexicality and context. While most of the references are to the analytic philosophical field also perspectives in so-called continental philosophy are taken into account. The introductory chapter outlines some unifying routes of reflection as regards meaning speech as action and self and mind and suggests some connections between doing pragmatics and doing philosophy.

In recent years a lively debate ensued on an old issue namely the proper distinction between semantics and pragmatics against the background of the classical Gricean distinction between ‘what is said’ and ‘what is implicated’. From a linguist’s point of view however there has always been a regrettable lack of empirical data in this otherwise sophisticated debate. Recently a new strand of research emerged under the name of experimental pragmatics the attempt to gain experimental data on pragmatic and semantic issues by using psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic methods. This volume brings together work by scholars engaging in experimental research on the semantics/pragmatics distinction. The contribution of experimental pragmatics to pragmatic and semantic theory is discussed from a number of different angles ranging from implicature and pragmatic enrichment to pragmatic acquisition pragmatic impairment and pragmatic processing. In addition methodological issues are discussed. The contributions will appeal to theoretical linguists psycholinguists neurolinguists and language philosophers.

The book provides a new angle for the study of otherwise amply discussed discourse and interactional phenomena. The new perspective consists in addressing the interconnections between resonance stance represented discourse and joking in Mexican conversational discourse. In so doing it contributes to a better understanding of the interplay between collaboration intersubjectivity and emergence among other relevant issues. Scholars and advanced students concerned with dialogic syntax theory stance theory and Spanish will find the present analysis interesting and innovative. However the writing and methodology based on clearly discussed and presented examples from selected conversational excerpts including graphic representations of linguistic and discourse data makes the analysis easy to follow also to non-specialists. The book is thus interesting to a broad circle of readers whether they are concerned with any of the issues dealt with or with their mutual connections whether they are specialists or not.

This volume features a collection of empirical studies which use priming methods to explore the comprehension production and acquisition of second language (L2) phonology syntax and lexicon. The term priming refers to the phenomenon in which prior exposure to specific language forms or meanings influences a speaker’s subsequent language comprehension or production. This book brings together the various strands of priming research into a single volume that specifically addresses the interests of researchers teachers and students interested in L2 teaching and learning. Chapters by internationally known scholars feature a variety of priming techniques describe various psycholinguistic tasks and focus on different domains of language knowledge and skills. The book is conceptualized with a wide audience in mind including researchers not familiar with priming methods and their application to L2 research graduate students in second language acquisition and related disciplines and instructors who require readings for use in their courses.

Complex predicates present different levels of complexity at the syntactic and morphological levels crosslinguistically. The focus of this book is a subset of these constructions (causative and applicative) in three polysynthetic languages of the South Caucasian language family in which the functional morphology associated with the argument structure of these constructions is unusually rich. Due to such focus the syntax-morphology interface in causative and applicative constructions is subject to scrutiny in two main chapters of the book. The analysis includes the argument structure of causatives and applicatives along with the morpho-phonological instantiation of the functional heads involved in these constructions. The book is written very clearly and is accessible for a wide audience including undergraduate students in the introductory syntax and morphology courses as well as graduate students in basic syntax courses and seminars in linguistics. It naturally appeals to a general linguistic audience interested in theoretical linguistics.

The present volume represents a variety of portraits of what happens when families attempt to raise children in Spanish while living in English-speaking societies. Aided by the foregrounding chapter by Suzanne Romaine about language and identity and the afterword by Carol Klee that ties together many issues brought up throughout the collection the reader gains a more complete understanding of the variables that contribute to Spanish bilingualism in English-speaking societies and by extension a more complete understanding of the dynamic nature of bilingualism in general. This volume the first of its kind brings together an impressive array of sociolinguistic environments while keeping the two languages constant. We hope that it marks the beginning of comparative analyses of bilingualism acquisition outcomes and identity construction across environments that share the same languages but where important disparities exist in the sociolinguistic landscapes.

The context of mediation immediately highlights the importance of argumentation as a means to reasonably handle conflict. Argumentation in dispute mediation tackles this topic providing both theoretical insights and detailed empirical argumentative analysis. Its goal is twofold: to explore mediation as a real-life context of argumentation and to show how an increased argumentative awareness could improve conflict resolution.

Particular emphasis is accorded to mapping mediation through an interdisciplinary reasoned review of existing accounts. The outline of a conceptual framework of mediation constitutes a solid basis for the study of argumentation in mediation. The argumentative analysis of a corpus of mediation cases based on the pragma-dialectical account and the Argumentum Model of Topics shows the mediator’s moves which actually help conflicting parties discuss reasonably. The mediator’s topical potential plays a crucial role in this relation at the levels of issue selection evoking of cultural-contextual premises and choice of argument schemes.