EXPLORATIONS IN SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. GRAMMAR AND RHETORIC WITHIN A FUNCTIONAL VIEW OF LANGUAGE -- 1.0 Preface -- 1.1 Grammar and Rhetoric -- 1.2 Funetionalism and Formalism -- 1.3 Textual and Interpersonal Rhetoric -- 1.4 Via Media: Formalist Functionalism -- 2. NATURAL LANGUAGE AS METALANGUAGE -- 2.0 Preface -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Metalanguage: Examples and Definitions -- 2.3 The Semantic Representation of Metareference -- 2.4 The Problem of Direct and Indirect Speech -- 2.5 The Problem of Semantic Acceptability in Reporting Sentences -- 2.6 The Problem of Referential Opacity -- 2.7 The Problem of Presuppositions -- 2.8 Conclusion -- 3. METALANGUAGE, PRAGMATICS, AND PERFORMATIVES -- 3.0 Preface -- 3.1 The Performative Hypothesis and the Pragmatic Analysis -- 3.2 Indirect Speech and Modes of Mention -- 3.3 A Sketch of the Pragmatic Analysis -- 3.4 Comparison of the Performative Hypothesis and the Pragmatic Analysis -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4. LANGUAGE AND TACT -- 4.0 Preface -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 "Direct and Indirect Illocutions" versus "Sense and Force" -- 4, 3 Searle 's Approach Compared With the Present One -- 4,4 Gordon and. Lakoff 's Conversational Postulates -- 4.5 Sadock's 'Extended Performative Hypothesis' -- 4,6 Relation between Sense and Force -- 4.7 Explanation of 'Indirectness ' by Conversational Principles -- 4.8 Recapitulation -- 4.9 The Logical Form (Sense) of a Sentence -- 4.10 The Pragmatic Force of a Sentence -- 4.11 Negative Politeness -- 4.12 The Tact Maxim -- 4.13 The Hinting Strategy -- 4.14 Pragmatic Space -- 4.15 Conclusion -- FOOTNOTES -- REFERENCES.