![]() Derrida explicitly deals with the themes of intention (in his readings of Husserl and Austin) and context (again in his essay on Austin) while tackling the other two implicitly. I isolate four elements of pragmatics that distinguishes it from formal semantics: convention, intention, context, and conversational maxims (or, in Habermasian terminology, pragmatic presuppositions). ![]() Figures such as Austin, Searle, Grice, and Habermas are discussed so that the underlying themes of pragmatics can be made explicit. In order to accomplish this task, I first delve into the study of pragmatics and chart its development out of ordinary language philosophy. ![]() I have tried to prove Derrida’s assertion that his work overlaps and is consistent with pragmatics is correct. In a way, this program serves as a rebuttal to the critics of deconstruction who have maintained that Derrida is committed to the view that there is no such thing as meaning, thus allowing a text to be interpreted in any way that suits the whims of the reader. ![]() Jacques Derrida has often remarked that his own philosophy of language can be regarded as a sort of pragmatics, which he calls pragrammatology (pragmatics + grammatology). ![]()
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