‘Yo!’ and ‘Lo!’: The Pragmatic Topography of the Space of Reasons

Rebecca Kukla; Mark Lance

Published by Harvard University Press 2009

‘Yo!’ and ‘Lo!’

The Pragmatic Topography of the Space of Reasons

Rebecca Kukla and Mark Lance

https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674274396

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About this book

Much of 20th-century philosophy approached metaphysical and epistemological issues through an analysis of language. This book demonstrates that non-declarative speech acts—including vocative hails (“Yo!”) and calls to shared attention (“Lo!”)—are as fundamental to the possibility and structure of meaningful language as are declaratives.

Reviews

This project is important and exciting for many reasons, including its new themes for philosophical work, and its compelling new perspectives on some familiar issues. I found myself repeatedly finding unexpected insights and novel ways of formulating or addressing issues, or making wider philosophical connections.
-- Joseph Rouse, Wesleyan University

'Yo!' and 'Lo!' is an innovative investigation into the philosophy of language. It moves the pragmatics of language center-stage in a way unlike anything I have seen before. The authors offer us a new way of approaching important questions about what language does and what we can do with it. This is a truly seminal work.
-- Willem deVries, University of New Hampshire

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1 Pragmatism, Pragmatics, and Discourse: Mapping the Terrain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Observatives and the Pragmatics of Perception Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
3 The Pragmatic Structure of Objectivity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
4 Anticlimactic Interlude: Why Performatives Are Not That Important to Us Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
5 Prescriptives and the Metaphysics of Ought-Claims Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
6 Vocatives, Acknowledgments, and the Pragmatics of Recognition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
7 The Essential Second Person Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
8 Sharing a World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Appendix: Toward a Formal Pragmatics of Normative Statuses With Greg Restall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 256

eBook

Published: January 15, 2009
ISBN: 9780674274396