Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction / PARRET, HERMAN -- I. Community and Communication, Meaning and Understanding -- Anti-Individualism, Responsibility, Deference and Dissembling / DAVIS, STEVEN -- Meaning and Indexicality in Communication / PRANDI, MICHELE -- How Do We Know that What We Mean is Understood? Hypothesis and Warranty of Uptake in Conversation / MOESCHLER, JACQUES -- II. Types of Pretending to Communicate -- Pretending to Refer / SEYMOUR, MICHEL -- Pretending to Be Objective / DISPAUX, GILBERT -- How Scientists Argue. Two Case Studies / DOMINICY, MARC -- On the Political Message: Pretending to Communicate / GIORA, RACHEL -- Pedagogy and Paradox: Teaching Interpretation in a Religious Community / LUKE, ALLAN / KAPITZKE, CUSHLA -- III. Pretension to Communicate in Fiction and in Conversation -- No Conversation without Misrepresentation / FRASER, BRUCE -- Edifying Archie or: How to Fool the Reader / MEY, JACOB -- Pragmatics and Rhetoric: A Collaborative Approach to Conversation / Gu, YUEGUO -- Con/versation / MCHOUL, ALEC -- NATIONAL, ETRANGER: Two Jammed Shifters / PEDRETTI, ALMA BOLÓN -- IV. Ways and Forces of Pretending to Communicate -- Indirection, Manipulation and Seduction in Discourse / PARRET, HERMAN -- Unrepeatable Sentences: Contextual Influence on Speech and Thought Presentation / YAMAGUCHI, HARUHIKO -- On Non-Serious Talk: Some Cross-Cultural Remarks on the (Un)importance of (not) Being Earnest / MARRELLI, JOCELYNE VINCENT -- Lying as Pretending to Give Information / CASTELFRANCHI, CRISTIANO / POGGI, ISABELLA -- The Description of Lies in Speech Acts Theory / REBOUL, ANNE -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Backmatter
