Reviews for Pragmatics at Issue (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series V1): Selected Papers of International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 17-22, 1987, Vol. 1

The average rating for Pragmatics at Issue (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series V1): Selected Papers of International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 17-22, 1987, Vol. 1 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-01-30 00:00:00 Albert Feiertag It is of course not fair for me to rate this nor to be the only one who's rated it. But, here we are! As someone who's studied linguistics at the graduate level but has only an introductory understanding of philosophy, I thought this would be an interesting book. Not especially! I read the first three chapters then kind of gave up, realizing that the authors were largely going in circles. I may pick it up later to find specific things, because there were a few sections I found interesting. But by and large this is a book that will only be interesting to people who are Very well-versed in philosophical theory. Even then, it is repetitive.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-11-28 00:00:00 Michael Dew Read: 29 May-. Supposedly still reading this but I think I've given up on it. While they are challenging the received norm in philosophy of language they are doing so on a very fine point. I agree that theirs is a valid critique but I also feel that it is spurious and does not begin to go far enough; that is, to question the whole of the received norm of philosophy of language.