Presents theories and applies them to practical cases

Includes papers by well-known linguists and philosophers

Contains original papers that were presented at the Pragmasofia conference in Palermo in 2016

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."