Bibliography Counterfactuals

[Chilton, Paul]

Dear all,
 
Please also note my own humble efforts in the attached paper  (prepublication draft). It is a novel theoretical framework that the older reference do not use. You need a new framework to capture the relevant phenonema. This framework is fundamentally discourse-based, as well as cognitive. The section on counterfactuals starts at about page 32. You need to check out the diagrams.
 
I don't see the point of a specifically CDA account of counterfactuals: we first of all need to have an adequate account of the linguistic phenomenon. Then, of course, CDAnalysts might find counterfactuals used strategically in  specific utterances. For instance, there are some frequent pragmatic implicatures, I think, when people use counterfactuals, e.g. "If you had done X, then Y would have happened", which can in certain situations have the implicature: "you (morally) should have done X and you are now to blame for Y not having happened". 
 
 
Paul
 

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Subject: Bibliography Counterfactuals



Hi Chris,

Here is a (non selective) bibliography on counterfactuals, of references that have the word in the title or its descriptors. Much discussion of David Lewis famous book of 1973 - and most of it logical-philosophical, some linguistic and some psychological. 

See also the article on counterfactuals in the always very useful on line Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu <http://plato.stanford.edu/> ). 

I am afraid I don't know specific CDA studies on counterfactuals if they are not on this list. So, you need to read all the titles and see what's there. Sorry I cannot be more helpful. Significantly, in the bibliography the word "discourse" does not even appear once! Which again shows that also philosophers need some discursive indoctrination, since counterfactuals are first of all text or talk....!

I send the bibliography to the CRITICS-L list, in case more people want to read on counterfactuals - quite interesting topic for discourse analysis as well. 

Cheers

Teun
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Teun A. van Dijk
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Dept. de Traducció i Filologia
Rambla 30
08002 Barcelona

E-mail: teun at discourses.org
Internet: www.discourses.org <http://www.discourses.org/> 


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