PRAGMATIC MEANING AND COGNITION -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Theoretical Perspectives on Pragmatic Meaning -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The philosophical perspective -- 1.3 The cognitive pragmatics perspective -- 1.4 The societal perspective -- 1.5 Conclusions -- 2. Towards an Experiential Approach toPragmatic Meaning -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The objectivist paradigm in the study of linguistic meaning: thesemantics-pragmatics dichotomy -- 2.3 On experiential realism -- 2.3.1 The experiential perspective on reasoning and internalization -- 2.3.1.1 Reasoning -- 2.3.1.2 The issue of internalization -- 2.3.2 An experiential definition of pragmatics and pragmatic meaning -- 2.4 Conclusions -- 3. On Deixis -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 A descriptive analysis of deixis -- 3.2.1 Some properties of deixis -- 3.2.2 Deictic categories -- 3.2.2.1 Person and social deixis -- 3.2.2.2 Time deixis -- 3.2.2.3. Place deixis -- 3.2.2.4 Discourse deixis -- 3.3 An experiential approach to deixis -- 3.3.1 The cognitive basis of deixis -- 3.3.1.1 The ICM of deixis -- 3.3.1.2 An account of problems in the analysis of deixis -- 3.4 Conclusions -- 4. On Presupposition -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Presuppositional phenomena and problems -- 4.2.1 Traditional approaches to presupposition -- 4.2.2 Defeasibility and the projection problem: towards a pragmatic account -- 4 2.2.1 Defeasibility -- 4.2.2.2 The projection problem -- 4.2.3 Some theoretical considerations -- 4 2.3.1 The semantic approach -- 4 2.3.2 The pragmatic approach -- 4.2.4 Towards a unified treatment of presupposition -- 4.3 An experiential approach to presupposition -- 4.3.1 Presupposition-triggering ICMs -- 4.3.2 Mental spaces and the construction of realities -- 4.4 Conclusions -- 5. On Speech Acts.

5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Speech act theory -- 5.2.1 Origins of speech act theory -- 5.2.2 Development of speech act theory -- 5.3 Issues and problems in speech act theory -- 5.3.1 The performative hypothesis -- 5.3.2 Conventionality and intentionality -- 5.3.3 Criticisms of classical speech act theory -- 5.3.4 The interactive character of speech acts and cognition -- 5.4 An experiential approach to speech acts -- 5.4.1 The ICM of speech acts -- 5.4.2 The prototypicality scale of speech acts -- 5.5 Conclusions -- 6. On Implicature -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Grice's theory of communication and implicature -- 6.3 Issues and criticisms of the theory of implicature -- 6.4 Developments in the analysis of implicature -- 6.4.1 The relevance theoretic approach -- 6.4.2 The neo-Gricean approach -- 6.5 An experiential approach to inferences and communication -- 6.5.1 The experiential grounding of inferences -- 6.5.2 Cognitive models of communication and inferences -- 6.6 Conclusions -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Subject Index -- Name Index.