附註:Essays translated from German.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-446) and index.
Introduction / Maeve Cooke -- 1. What Is Universal Pragmatics? (1976) -- 2. Social Action, Purposive Activity, and Communication (1981) -- 3. Communicative Rationality and the Theories of Meaning and Action (1986) -- 4. Actions, Speech Acts, Linguistically Mediated Interactions, and the Lifeworld (1988) -- 5. Comments on John Searle's "Meaning, Communication and Representation" (1988) -- 6. Toward a Critique of the Theory of Meaning (1988) -- 7. Some Further Clarifications of the Concept of Communicative Rationality (1996) -- 8. Richard Rorty's Pragmatic Turn (1996) -- 9. On the Distinction between Poetic and Communication Uses of Language (1985) -- 10. Questions and Counterquestions (1985).