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This paper tries to articulate an indexical theory of pragmatics that can consistently cover not only (1) referential and (2) non-referential, social-indexical practices, but also (3) linguistic structure, or its metalinguistic (cross-linguistic) matrices, comprised of indexically anchored grammatical categories and distinctive features. Noting that all of the three domains (1)–(3), can be shown to be indexically organized and anchored onto the deictic center of communicative event, that is, on sociocultural, social-indexical interaction, I shall focus on articulating the deictically centered indexical organization of linguistic structure, or grammar. In so doing, I shall argue that not only social-indexical pragmatics, but also referential pragmatics and even grammar are anchored onto the deictic center of discursive interaction, which is, first and foremost, a sociocultural event. Consequently, theories of ‘language’, including both pragmatics and linguistics, must be ‘liberated’ from the reference- or semantics-centric perspectives; instead, they should start from ‘the bottom up’, from the deictic center of sociocultural interaction, i.e., ‘discourse’.

This paper tries to present a native grammarian’s view of Japanese, articulated in opposition to the analysis of the language based on the notions of ‘Western linguistics’ such as ‘subject’ and ‘tense’. Although Yamaguchi’s particular analysis, provided in section 2, is not shared by all native grammarians of Japanese, it does give an illustrative example of the perspectival stance, or ‘footing’, of a dominant school of National Language Studies ( koku-go-gaku ), of which Yamaguchi is a leading figure, towards language and culture. This ‘footing’, as seen in section 2, is characterized by its focus on ‘emic analysis’ and its espousal of nativism, which may be associated with nationalistic essentialism. As such, it gives us an opportunity to observe not only a different grammatical tradition, but also the irreducibly cultural , i.e., (social) pragmatic, dimension of grammatical (and pragmatic) analysis, centrally concerned with the (cross/sub)national identities and (cross/sub)disciplinary perspectives of grammarians, linguistics, and pragmaticists, as briefly suggested in section 1.

This paper tries to contextualize some of the major pragmatic theories of modern Anglo-American and Japanese societies in their socio-historic surrounds, identify them as modern linguistic ‘ideologies’, advance a socio-historic theory of pragmatics as an alternative, more (self-)critical ‘ideology’, and analyze the honorifics and honorification (deference entitlement) of the Modern Tokyo-standard variety of Japanese, as well as the native Japanese theories thereof, as ideologically mediated historic phenomena of modernity in such a critical framework.

This paper analyzes honorifics and deference entitlement in Modern Japanese along with the modern Japanese and Euro-American pragmatic theories thereof, as ideologically mediated social phenomena, in the critical–theoretical framework where they are contextualized to their socio-historic surrounds, inter alia to the modern socio-economic conditions giving rise to, but hidden behind, the modern pragmatic theories and the honorific phenomena analyzed by them.

R. Kopytko s'insurge contre le fait que le champ entier de l'epistemologie, notamment par rapport aux sciences humaines, repose sur une dichotomie entre rationalisme et empirisme. Kopytko defend ainsi un binarisme epistemologique reposant a la fois sur une approche rationaliste et empirique. Il retient ainsi la logique binaire de la raison primitive avancee par Levi-Strauss et la logique floue de l'empirisme instrumental. Ici, W. Koyama ne cherche pas a critiquer l'interpretation de Kopytko sur le recent developpement de la pragmatique mais essaie de montrer les limites historiques de sa matrice interpretative. En reponse, Kopytko montre les affinites qui existent entre eux malgre le fait que Koyama presente une vue radicale du non-cartesianisme en pragmatique et dans la philosophie de la science

This paper tries to advance a pragmatically-centered social theory of dialect and ‘dialectology’ (i.e., any knowledge, or ‘ideology’, about dialects). After discussing methodological issues, it will focus on ‘the Kyoto dialect’, and (1) analyze how the region of ‘Kyoto’ is pragmatically, culturally individuated; (2) provide a structural analysis of the local dialect, showing that it is not structurally individuated; and (3) relate how a native linguist has ideologically individuated the dialect in terms of the cultural (not structural) categories. In so doing, I shall try to articulate (a) how referential pragmatics, social-indexical pragmatics, linguistic structure, and linguistic ideologies are interrelated, and (b) how macro-social phenomena (linguistic structure and ‘sociolinguistic patterns’) can be related to referential and social-indexical pragmatics at the level of the micro-social speech event.

This obituary tries to represent the total vision of Jim McCawley's philosophy of practice, philosophy of language, linguistic theory, ‘syntactic’ theory, linguistic analyses and scientific practices, in all of which his individualism, relativism and critical rationalism were consistently manifested.