Pragmatics

£44.99

ISBN:

9781403986993

Publication Date:

10 May 2007

Language:

English

Publisher:

Palgrave USA

Imprint:

Palgrave Macmillan

Pages:

267 pages

Format:

Paperback

For delivery:

Estimated despatch 28 - 30 May 2024

Description

This volume addresses issues that have arisen in post-Gricean pragmatic theory. Among the specific topics covered are scalar implicatures, lexical semantics and pragmatics, indexicality, procedural meaning, the semantics and pragmatics of negation. The volume includes both defences and critiques of Relevance Theory and of Neo-Gricean Pragmatics.

Notes on Contributors Introduction; N.Burton-Roberts On a Pragmatic Explanation of Negative Polarity Licensing; J.D.Atlas Regressions in Pragmatics (and Semantics); K.Bach Constraints, Concepts and Procedural Encoding; D.Blakemore Optimality Theoretic Pragmatics and the Explicature/Implicature Distinction; R.Blutner Varieties of Semantics and Encoding: Negation, Narrowing/Loosening and Numericals; N.Burton-Roberts Relevance Theory and Shared Content; H.Cappelen & E.Lepore Concepts and Word Meaning in Relevance Theory; M.Groefsema Neo-Gricean Pragmatics: A Manichaean Manifesto; L.Horn The Why and How of Experimental Pragmatics: The Case of 'Scalar Inferences'; I.Noveck & D.Sperber Indexicality, Context, and Pretence: A Speech-Act Theoretic Account; F.Recanati A Unitary Approach to Lexical Pragmatics: Relevance, Inference and Ad Hoc Concepts; D.Wilson & R.Carston Index

Find this product in....

Back

Pragmatics

Paperback by Burton-Roberts, N.; Loparo, Kenneth A.; Loparo, Kenneth A.; Loparo, Kenneth A.; Loparo, Kenneth A.; Loparo, Kenneth A.; Loparo, Kenneth A.; Loparo, Kenneth A.; Loparo, Kenneth A.; Loparo, Kenneth A.; Loparo, Kenneth A.; Loparo, Kenneth A.; Loparo, Kenneth A.; Loparo, Kenneth A.

Description

Contents