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'Yo!' and 'Lo!' : the pragmatic topography of the space of reasons
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'Yo!' and 'Lo!' : the pragmatic topography of the space of reasons

Rebecca Kukla

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Pragmatism, pragmatics, and discourse : mapping the terrain
Varieties of pragmatism
Two distinctions among normative statuses
A typology of speech acts
More about agent-relativity and agent-neutrality
Several caveats
Entitlement and epistemic responsibility
Where we go from here
Observatives and the pragmatics of perception
Observatives
Observatives and occasion sentences
Observing-that and the declarative fallacy
The ineliminability of the first-person voice
The pragmatic structure of objectivity
Observatives, observation, and answerability to the world
Intersubjectivity
Objectivity
Anticlimactic interlude : why performatives are not that important to us
Prescriptives and the metaphysics of ought-claims
The pragmatics of prescriptives
Four ways of telling someone what to do
Two alternative accounts
Reasons, claims, and addresses
Coda : categorical imperatives
Vocatives, acknowledgments, and the pragmatics of recognition
Two kinds of recognitives
Vocatives
Acknowledgments
The essential second person
Concrete habitation of the space of reasons
Second-person speech
Tellings, holdings, and transcendental vocatives
Speech as communication and as calling
Sharing a world
Interpellation and induction into normative space
Membership in the discursive community
How many discursive communities are there?
Sharing a world and learning to see
On the equiprimordiality and entanglement of 'yo!' and 'lo!'
Fugue.

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