Pragmatics is a new and flourishing discipline. their magazines, discussion forums multiply and does not seem unreasonable to imagine that soon there will be university departments and research centers that name.

Like any new discipline, a part of their energy is devoted to assert their autonomy and to specify the methodology itself. In this volume the reader will appreciate the efforts of analytical orientation determined to clarify the philosophical problems of foundation and also those that refer to or transcendental ethical considerations.

This volume dedicated to the "Philosophy of Language II. Pragmatics' should be read as a complementary part of the already published "Philosophy I. Semantic language." Both sides, semantics and pragmatics, constitute a rigorous and comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of language, with leading growers in Iberoamerica.

Marcelo Dascal, editor of the volume, the study opens a job that while defending the complementarity between semantics and pragmatics tries to justify the theoretical range of the second. Eduardo Rabossi expounds the theory of "speech acts" in Austin and Searle in an original speech, with suggestive ideas around the concept of "realizatividad". A. Garcia Suarez crumbles essential for language notions such as those of "convention" and "rule" whose complexity throws into question the simplistic positions to which he refers.

Eduardo Bustos is Guadaño belt with the elusive phenomenon of metaphor capital to cognitive science and the philosophy of language matter. It is especially keen to point out the differences between a semantic and a pragmatic treatment of metaphor. The "theory of relevance" Begoña Vicente Cruz realizes he does see its implications in the "logic of the conversation." A Apel and Habermas has interested them pragmatic cognitive and ethical implications, resulting in a "transcendental" pragmatic and "universal", respectively. Adela Cortina them and Jesus Conill deal. Sanchez Durá and Sanfélix Vidarte address the issue of radical interpretation imaginary and real transcultural interpretation. C. Lafont and L. Peña refer to linguistic relativism of German hermeneutics, while A. Tomasini tries to show that you can make pragmatic without a pragmatic theory.