Cover -- Table of Contents -- Cognitive and Pragmatic Aspects of Speech Actions - Editorial: Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka -- Part 1 Language in Theory -- On Times and Contents: Kepa Korta and María Ponte -- Reasoning Without Explicit Quantifiers: Hiroyuki Uchida and Nicholas L Cassimatis -- Violable Constraints and Scalar Implicature Strength: Chris Cummins -- Context, Topic and the Resolution of Polysemy: Tahir Wood -- Part 2 Lexical Pragmatics -- A Pragmatic Analysis of the Basque Particle "ote": Joana Garmendia -- Particles versus Verbs as Reporting Devices: Their Truth conditional Contributions: Larraitz Zubeldia -- Towards an Interactional Grammar of Polish: Yes/NoQuestions and Their Design: Matylda Weidner -- The Pragmatics of Reduced Forms in an Internet Community of Practice: Jonathan R. White -- Part 3 Speech Acts -- Intention and Responsibility in Speech Acts: Jesús Navarro-Reyes -- Are Indirect Speech Acts Always Conventional?: Nicolas Ruytenbeek -- Part 4 Cognitive Processes in Language Development and Meaning Construal -- Conceptual Development and the Emergence of Meaning in a Congenitally Blind Child's Lexicon: Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskup -- Intuitive and Reflective Inferencing in Counter-argument Processing: Kamila Dębowska-Kozłowska -- The Butcher-Surgeon Metaphor Revisited: Ad hoc Concepts and Blends: Ewa Wałaszewska.