Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Using Quotations: Their Argumentative Uses and Their Manipulations; 1.1 Quotations and Types of Quotations; 1.1.1 Direct Quotation; 1.1.2 Indirect Quotation; 1.1.3 Types of Quotation and Commitments; 1.2 The Uses of Quotations - Supporting a Viewpoint; 1.2.1 Authoritative Quotations; 1.2.2 Dialectical Quotations; 1.3 The Uses of Quotations - Attacking the Interlocutor; 1.3.1 Quotes for Direct Attacks; 1.3.2 Quotes for Undermining a Witness's Credibility; 1.3.3 Quotes for Undercutting Expertise; 1.3.4 Quotes as Gentle Threats

1.4 Retraction Strategies1.4.1 Denying Commitments by Appealing to Non-seriousness; 1.4.2 Point of Order of Equivocation; 1.4.3 Denying Commitments by Denying Inferred Meaning; 1.4.4 Attacking the Use of Quotations; 1.5 Between Selecting and Manipulating; 1.5.1 Selective Quotations; 1.5.2 Ignoring Qualifications and Wrenching from Co-text; 1.5.3 Manipulating Inferences Through Loaded Words; 1.5.4 Altering Dialogical Intentions: Wrenching from Context; 1.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 2: Communicative Intentions and Commitments; 2.1 The Speaker's Meaning and His Commitments

2.2 Commitments in Dialogue2.3 Implicit Commitments and Common Ground; 2.4 The Problems of Commitment Attribution in Quotations; 2.5 Utterances, Speech Acts, and Communicative Purposes; 2.5.1 The Standard View; 2.5.2 The Inferential Dimension of Reconstructing Illocutionary Forces; 2.6 Communicative Intentions and Communicative Purposes; 2.7 Commitments and Joint Communicative Purposes; 2.8 Dialogue Moves; 2.9 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Establishing Commitments Between Ambiguity and Misquotation; 3.1 Commitments and Interpretation: Ambiguity of the Explicit Meaning

3.1.1 Lexical Ambiguity3.1.2 Reference Assignment; 3.1.3 Syntactic Structure; 3.1.4 Ambiguity of Metaphorical Meaning; 3.2 Commitments and Interpretation: Ambiguity of the Implicit Meaning; 3.2.1 Ambiguity of What Is Presupposed; 3.2.2 Ambiguity of What Is "Conversationally" Implicated; 3.2.3 Ambiguity of What Is Meant: Literal v. Inferential Interpretation; 3.2.4 Ambiguity of What Is Meant: Ambiguity of the Implicated Contents; 3.2.5 Ambiguity of What Is Meant: Ambiguity of the Dialogue Move; 3.3 Ambiguity, Misunderstandings, and Context; 3.3.1 Types of Ambiguity and Ambiguity Resolution

3.3.2 Levels of Ambiguity and Their Argumentative Effects3.3.3 Dialogue Moves, Dialogical Purposes, and Ambiguity; 3.4 Presumptions and Best Interpretation; 3.4.1 Presumptions and Presumptive Reasoning in Interpretation; 3.4.2 Levels of Presumption and Reasoning from Best Interpretation; 3.5 Ambiguity and Commitments; 3.5.1 The Strength of Commitments; 3.5.2 The Reasonableness of Commitment; 3.6 The Criteria of Attribution of Commitments in Law; 3.7 Commitments and Pragmatic Relevance; 3.7.1 Defeasibility and Context; 3.7.2 Pragmatic Relevance; 3.7.3 Relevance, Presumptions, and Defeasibility