Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- I. Community and Communication, Meaning and Understanding -- Anti-Individualism, Responsibility, Deference and Dissembling -- Meaning and Indexicality in Communication -- How Do We Know that What We Mean is Understood? Hypothesis and Warranty of Uptake in Conversation -- II. Types of Pretending to Communicate -- Pretending to Refer -- Pretending to Be Objective -- How Scientists Argue. Two Case Studies -- On the Political Message: Pretending to Communicate -- Pedagogy and Paradox: Teaching Interpretation in a Religious Community -- III. Pretension to Communicate in Fiction and in Conversation -- No Conversation without Misrepresentation -- Edifying Archie or: How to Fool the Reader -- Pragmatics and Rhetoric: A Collaborative Approach to Conversation -- Con/versation -- NATIONAL, ETRANGER: Two Jammed Shifters -- IV. Ways and Forces of Pretending to Communicate -- Indirection, Manipulation and Seduction in Discourse -- Unrepeatable Sentences: Contextual Influence on Speech and Thought Presentation -- On Non-Serious Talk: Some Cross-Cultural Remarks on the (Un)importance of (not) Being Earnest -- Lying as Pretending to Give Information -- The Description of Lies in Speech Acts Theory -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- 305-308