Seduction, community, speech a festschrift for Herman Parret (John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2004)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Seduction, Community, Speech; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Mind the gap; Selected books and articles by Herman Parret in philosophy of language and pragmatics; I. Pragmatics (standard and not so standard); Ordinary time; Performatives as constatives vs. declarations; 'First/second vs. third person' and 'first vs. second/third person'; De la nécessité de prendre en compte la dimension praxéologique ©¡ tous les niveaux de l'organisation des discours; From Optative and Subjunctive to Irrealis; Quand dire, c'est "faire rire aux dépens."
This volume unites various contributions reflecting the intellectual interests exhibited by Professor Herman Parret (Institute of Philosophy, Leuven), who has continued to observe, and often critically assess, ongoing developments in pragmatics throughout his career. In fact, Parret's contributions to philosophical and empirical/linguistic pragmatics present substantive proposals in the epistemics of communication, while simultaneously offering meta-comments on the ideological premises of extant pragmatic analyses. In a lengthy introduction, an overview is provided of his achievements in promo