Abstract:
"In my view, the primary aim of discourse pragmatics is to analyze the structure and dynamics of language games whose type is provided with an internal conversational goal. Such games are indispensable to any kind of discourse. Logic can analyze their felicity-conditions because they are conducted according to systems of constitutive rules. Speakers often speak nonliterally or nonseriously. The units of conversation are attempted illocutions whether literal, serious or not. I will show how to construct speaker meaning from sentence meaning, conversational background and maxims. Like Montague, I believe that we need the resources of formalisms (proof, model and game theories) and of logic in pragmatics. I will explain how to further develop 'intensional' and 'illocutionary' logics, the logic of 'attitudes' and of 'action' in order to characterize our ability to converse. I will compare my approach to others (Austin, Belnap, GRICE, Montague, Searle, ..., Kamp, Wittgenstein) as regards hypotheses, methodology and issues."
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