Contemporary Pragmatic Studies

Developments in Southern Brazil

Abstract

In this essay, we contextualize the thematic dossier Contemporary Pragmatic Studies in the context of the development of Brazilian pragmatic studies in the last two decades, highlighting those directly or indirectly organized around initiatives of the Research Group on Logic and Natural Language (PUCRS) and Language and Culture (UFPR) and, more recently, from the Working Group on Pragmatic Studies of the National Association for Research and Graduate Studies in Letters/Linguistics (ANPOLL). The dossier brings together seven studies on contextualized aspects of language, assuming the idea that the speaker's informative intentions influence the inferred meanings in communication interactions in which volatile interpretations are negotiated.