Inquiries in Philosophical Pragmatics

Fabrizio Macagno (Ph.D. UCSC, Milan, 2008) works as a researcher and invited auxiliary professor at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is author of more than eighty papers on definition, presupposition, argumentation schemes, and dialogue analysis published in major international peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Pragmatics, Intercultural Pragmatics, Argumentation, and Philosophy and Rhetoric. His most important publications include the books Argumentation Schemes (CUP 2008), Emotive Language in Argumentation (CUP 2014), and Interpreting Straw Man Argumentation (Springer 2017).Alessandro Capone is full professor of general linguistics at the University of Messina in the Department of Cognitive Science. He has a doctorate from the University of Oxford, where he studied with James Higginbotham and Yan Huang, and one from the University of Palermo, where he studied with Franco Lo Piparo. He has two habilitations as full professor of linguistics and philosophy of language. He is chief editor of the Springer series Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy, Psychology. He is co-editor for the journal Pragmatics and Philosophy, Mouton De Gruyter.  He has published a monograph for Springer, entitled The Pragmatics of Indirect Reports: Socio-Philosophical Considerations. (2016). He has published papers in Lingua, Linguistics, Pragmatics and Cognition, Pragmatics and Society, Journal of Pragmatics, Intercultural Pragmatics, Australian Journal of Linguistics, La Linguistique, Argumentation, RASK: International Journal of Language and Communication, International Journal of Language Studies, Oxford working papers in Linguistics, Reti Saperi Linguaggi, and Lingua e Stile. He has published sixteen volumes with CSLI, University of Chicago Press, Springer, Clueb (Bologna), and ETS (Pisa). He is a member of the editorial boards for Lingua, Journal of Pragmatics, Intercultural Pragmatics, Pragmatics and Society, International journal of Language Studies, and Brill Research Studies in Pragmatics.

• Introduction (Macagno, M. & A. Capone.).- Chapter 1. Three Mistakes About Semantic Intentions (Devitt, M.).- Chapter 2. ‘Few’, ‘A Few’, and ‘Only’: Negative Quantifier Noun Phrases and Negative Polarity Items -- the Horn-Atlas Debate 1991 – 2018 (Atlas, J.).- Chapter 3. Prospective Reference (Saka, P.).- Chapter 4. Interpretation  Of  Copredicative  Sentences: Rich Underspecification Account (Ortega, M.).- Chapter 5. Speech-act-theoretic explanations of problems of pure indexicals (Oishi, E.).- Chapter 6. First person implicit indirect reports in disguise (Capone, A.).- Chapter 7. Meaning, Reasoning, and Common Knowledge (Werner, R.).- Chapter 8. Assessing Dialectical Relevance Using Argument Distance (Walton, D.).- Chapter 9. The communicative functions of metaphors between explanation and persuasion (Rossi, Macagno.).- Chapter 10. Stereotypes favour implicatures and implicatures smuggle stereotypes: the case of propaganda (Lombardi Vallauri, E.).

“The volume is thought-provoking in terms of its theoretical depth, breadth of coverage, and authors’ expertise. It is such a valuable contribution to philosophical pragmatics that those interested in pragmatics and philosophy (of language) could find interesting ideas and useful directions for further research.” (Yang Liu, Qiao Huang and Xi Li, Corpus Pragmatics, Vol. 8 (2), 2024)