This book contains a comprehensive view of pragmalinguistic studies and their recent ramifications, boasting some of the most advanced recent research in pragmatics. Organised into three sections-pragmalinguistics, social pragmatics, and cognitive-inferential pragmatics, respectively-the chapters enable an understanding of the possible applications of linguistic and philosophical theories in practical fields. Covering topics such as polysemy across languages and lexical externalism, the role of literal meaning in the construction of metaphorical meaning, the pragmatics of truth, the roles of reflexivity in meaning negotiation, argumentation and discourse, the pragmatics of taboo, linguistic and cognitive aspects of formation of implicates, and reflections on neuropragmatics and clinical pragmatics in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Schizophrenia-to name but a few exciting areas of exploration-this book is of interest to scholars and postgraduate students in the fields of semantics, pragmatics and philosophy of language, cognitive science, and other areas of linguistics.

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Alessandro Capone is a full professor of General Linguistics at the University of Messina. He has published about a hundred articles in international journals and several monographs on indirect speech and the relationship between pragmatics and philosophy. Alessandro Capone is part of the scientific committee of various prestigious international journals and coordinates the Research and Mobility project at the University of Messina.

Roberto Graci has a Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences from the University of Messina. His work focuses on the communicative competence of people with aphasia and its implication on the semantics/pragmatics debate. He has published several papers emphasising the productive comparison between theoretical pragmatics and speech-language pathology. Roberto Graci has also actively participated in important events on linguistics and philosophy of language, including Pragmasophia 3 and the XIV Congress of Italian Society of Analytical Philosophy (SIFA).