Pragmatics at its Interfaces.

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1. Introduction ; I. Pragmatics and philosophy ; 2. Back to negative particulars: A truth-conditional pragmatic account ; 3. Colour adjectives, compositionality, and true utterances ; 4. Talk about the future ; 5. Illocutionary effects, presupposition, and implicature.

II Pragmatics and cognition 6. Is implicit communication a way to escape epistemic vigilance? ; 7. The structure of utterance meaning: how did it come about? ; 8. The role of Theory of Mind, grammatical competence and metapragmatic awareness in irony comprehension.

III Pragmatics and linguistic analysis 9. Theoretical and methodological issues in the research into implicit arguments in Hungarian ; 10. The Pragmatics of 'Yes' and 'No' ; 11. Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence: On the interpretation of future tense in Modern Greek.

12. Redundancy effects in discourse: On the modal particle-combinations 'halt eben' and 'eben halt' in German IV. Conversation analysis ; 13 The pragmatics of intelligible pronunciation: Preemptive and reactive segmental repair in English as a lingua franca interactions in Japan.

14 The interactional functions of four repair operations in Hungarian Index.

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