Pragmatics / edited by Noel Burton-Roberts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burton-Roberts, Noel, 1948-

Series:

Palgrave advances

Palgrave advances in linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

xi, 267 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

This contribution to Palgrave's 'Advances' series addresses a wide range of issues that have arisen in post-Gricean pragmatic theory and presents a range of theoretical positions and approaches. Distinguished authors whose work is well known as lying at the interface of language, logic, linguistics, psychology and cognitive science contribute to the current lively debate within the field, with considerations of relevance theory, neo-Gricean pragmatics, optimality - theoretic pragmatics and experimental work. Among the specific topics covered are scalar implicature, lexical semantics and pragmatics, concepts and concept-adjustment, indexicality, speech acts, procedural meaning and the notion of 'constraint', the explicature-implicature distinction, numerical expressions, the semantics and pragmatics of negation and negative polarity items, and whether successful communication involves 'shared content'.

Contents:

2 On a pragmatic explanation of negative polarity licensing / Jay David Atlas 10

3 Regressions in pragmatics (and semantics) / Kent Bach 24

4 Constraints, concepts and procedural encoding / Diane Blakemore 45

5 Optimality theoretic pragmatics and the explicature/implicature distinction / Reinhard Blutner 67

6 Varieties of semantics and encoding: negation, narrowing/loosening and numericals / Noel Burton-Roberts 90

7 Relevance theory and shared content / Herman Cappelen, Ernie Lepore 115

8 Concepts and word meaning in relevance theory / Marjolein Groefsema 136

9 Neo-gricean pragmatics: a manichaean manifesto / Laurence R. Horn 158

10 The why and how of experimental pragmatics: the case of 'scalar inferences' / Ira Noveck, Dan Sperber 184

11 Indexicality, context and pretence: a speech-act theoretic account / Francois Recanati 213

12 A unitary approach to lexical pragmatics: relevance, inference and ad hoc concepts / Deirdre Wilson, Robyn Carston 230.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781403986986

1403986983

9781403986993

1403986991

OCLC:

77821353

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