Language, action, and context : the early history of pragmatics in Europe and America, 1780-1930 /
The roots of pragmatics reach back to Antiquity, especially to rhetoric as one of the three liberal arts. However, until the end of the 18th century proto-pragmatic insights tended to be consigned to the pragmatic, that is rhetoric, wastepaper basket and thus excluded from serious philosophical cons...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
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| ISBN: | 9789027298829 9027298823 9781556196164 1556196164 |
| ISSN: | 0304-0720 ; |
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Table of Contents:
- LANGUAGE, ACTION, AND CONTEXT; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Preface; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Prologue to protopragmatics: Locke's semiotic philosophy; 2. Protopragmatics in Germany: pragmatics as part of a Romantic philosophy of language; 3. Protopragmatics in France: Pragmatics as part of an 'ideological ' theory of language and thought; 4. A period of transition in the development of French pragmatics; 5. Protopragmatics in England:pragmatics as part of a common-sense theory of the mind; 6. A period of transition in the development of English pragmatics.