Epistemic modal operators give rise to something very like, but also very unlike, Moore’s paradox. I set out the puzzling phenomena, explain why a standard relational semantics for these operators cannot handle them, and recommend an alternative semantics. A pragmatics appropriate to the semantics is developed and interactions between the semantics, the pragmatics, and the definition of consequ...

although studies on pragmatics in general and politeness in particular abound in the literature, impoliteness has been largely ignored. in the present study, participants filled out either the persian or english version of a discourse completion test (dct). the researchers analyzed collected answers to discover the relationship between impoliteness and power. furthermore, the researchers compar...

This special issue of Fundamenta Informaticae is dedicated to papers related to the two workshops on “Logic for Pragmatics” held at the Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Verona, Italy, on September 1-5, 2003, and at LACL, Université de Paris 12, Créteil, France, on July 23-24, 2004. The following note outlines the main ideas of the “Logic for Pragmatics” discussed at those workshops an...

Recapitulation of Lecture 1 Aim of semantics and pragmatics: to give us a theory of linguistic meaning. Semantics: literal non-situation specific meaning of words + the meaning of the way words are combined = the starting point from which the whole meaning of utterance is constructed. Pragmatics: the meaning the speaker intends to communicate in a particular utterance. One of the questions sema...