Greco, Sara 2005 This paper is a review of Marcelo Dascal’s book Interpretation and Understanding (2003), which collects a series of papers published by Dascal on various topics related to the pragmatics of communication and, in particular, to the hearer’s task of grasping meaning. The present work aims at discussing some relevant issues which emerge in the volume, such as the concept of communicative action (with the related notions of commitment and involvement), and a deepening of the different possible types of individual and collective actions. Moreover, a typology of difficult cases of communication is presented, ranging from simple indirect communication, to misunderstandings, conflicts and controversies; in these cases, a particular effort in understanding is required. application/pdf https://susi.usi.ch/global/documents/336162 https://localhost:5000/ark:/12658/srd1336162 https://susi.usi.ch/documents/336162/files/pdf_pub1917.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/ark/12658/srd1336162 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Studies in Communication Sciences. - 2005, vol. 5, no. 1, p. 217-230 Communicative action Commitment Interpretation (Mis)understanding Conflict Controversy info:eu-repo/classification/udc/65 Dascal on interpretation and understanding http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_ba08