The two sections of this volume present theoretical developments and practical applicative papers respectively. Theoretical papers cover topics such as intercultural pragmatics, evolutionism, argumentation theory, pragmatics and law, the semantics/pragmatics debate, slurs, and more. The applied papers focus on topics such as pragmatic disorders, mapping places of origin, stance-taking, societal pragmatics, and cultural linguistics.

This is the second volume of invited papers that were presented at the inaugural Pragmasofia conference in Palermo in 2016, and like its predecessor presents papers by well-known philosophers, linguists, and a semiotician. The papers present a wide variety of perspectives independent from any one school of thought.

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Introduction.- Part I: Theories.- Stephen Schiffer,  Vague speaker-meaning.- Richard Warner, Indirect Reports in the Interpretation of Contracts and Statutes: A Gricean Theory of Coordination and Common Knowledge.- Istavan Kecskes, Should Intercultural Communication change the way we think about Language?.- Antonino Pennisi, Alessandra Falzone, Cognitive Pragmatics and Evolutionism.- Igor Douven, The Semantics/Pragmatics Debate, an Empirical Investigation.- Howard Wettstein, On Referents and Reference Fixing.- Douglas Walton and Fabrizio Macagno, Diagnosing Misattribution of Commitments: A Normative and Pragmatic Model of for Assessing Straw Man.- Paolo Leonardi,  Descriptions in use.- Fabrizio Macagno, Presupposition Triggers and Presumptive Interpretation.- Paul Saka, Superman Semantics.- Alberto Voltolini, Varieties of Fiction Operators.- Mitchell Green, Organic Meaning. An Approach to Communication with Minimal Appeal to minds.- La Mantia, Polysemy and Gestaltist Computation. Some notes on Gestaltist Compositionality.- Dorota Zielinska,The Field Model of Language and Free Enrichment.- Francesca Poggi, Conversational Implicatures of Normative Discourse.- Francesca Piazza, Not only slurs. A Pragma-rhetorical Approach to Verbal Abuse.- Grazia, Basile, What can Linguistics Learn from Indirect Reports?.- Part II: Applications.- Louise Cummings, Narrating the Cinderella story in Adults with Primary Progressive Aphasia.- Louise Cummings, On Making a Sandwich: Procedural Discourse in Adults with Right-hemisphere Damage.- Paola Pennisi, Research in Clinical Pragmatics: The Essence of a new Philosophy, the State of the art and Future Research.-  Sara Schatz, Melvin González-Rivera, Executive Functioning and Inter-Personal Skill Preservation in an Alzheimer's Patient.- Caterina Scianna, A Contribution from the Perspective of Language Cognitive Sciences on the Default Semantics and Architecture of Mind Debate.- Paola Pennisi, Personal Reference in Subjects with Autism.- Jock Wong, Two ways of saying 'Thank you' in Hong Kong Cantonese: m-goi vs. do-ze.- Jock Wong, Respecting other people's Boundaries; a Quintessentially Anglo Cultural Value.- Mostafa Moghaddam, Towards a Cognitively-Mediated Conceptualisation of the Cooperative Principle: An Introduction to the Maxim of Diplomacy.- Maria Pia Pozzato, Mapping Places of Origin.- Jeffrey Helmreich,Taking a Stance: an Account for Persons and Institutions.- Jonathan White, Marking Online Community Membership: The Pragmatics of Stance-taking.- Antonino  Bucca,  Cathartic Functions in Language: the Case Study of a Schizofrenic Patient.- Alessandro Capone, Antonino Bucca, I hope you will let Flynn go: Trump, Comey, Pragmemes and Socio-pragmatics (A Strawsonian analysis;).- Richard Warner, A Reply to I hope you will let Flynn go.- Brian Butler, On Capone, Bucca, Warner and Llewellyn on Pragmemes and I hope you will let Flynn go.