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A theory of conventional implicature and pragmatic markers in Chinese / by Guangwu Feng.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Feng, Guangwu.
- Series:
- Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface 22.
- Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface, 1472-7870 ; v. 22
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese language--Discourse analysis.
- Chinese language.
- Chinese language--Semantics.
- Connotation (Linguistics).
- Discourse markers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The overall aim of this book is to advance a Gricean theoretical framework of conventional implicature within which Chinese pragmatic markers can be accommodated. It has two linked objectives. Firstly it sets out to advance a theory of conventional implicature. Conventional implicature is itself a highly controversial term, understood very differently by various brands of contemporary pragmatic theory, and is a pivotal concept in the debates between the Gricean and Neo-Gricean theorists on the one hand and proponents of Relevance Theory on the other. This book offers an exemplary analysis and definition of what is involved in these current debates, and it both clarifies and 'problematises' a large range of associated issues. The second objective is to offer a principled and systematic analysis of pragmatic markers in Chinese. Markers of this sort (and a range of interconnnected categories including discourse particles) have been the subject of intense investigation in recent years, and this detailed study of Chinese markers is a contribution in this area which is of substantial importance, both theoretical and empirical.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Grice’s Theory of Meaning
- 3: Conventional Implicature: Some Preliminaries
- 4: Conventional Implicature: Towards a Theory
- 5: Pragmatic Markers in Chinese
- 6: Major Approaches to Pragmatic Markers
- 7: Pragmatic Markers and Conventional Implicature
- 8: Conclusions
- References
- Conventions, Notations and Abbreviations
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 14, 2014).
- Revision of work originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D)--University of Reading, 2006.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004253179
- 9004253173
- OCLC:
- 871781012
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004253179 DOI
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