Pragmatics [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huang, Yan.

Series:

Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics.

Local Subjects:

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

: Oxford University Press, UK, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This introduction to pragmatics provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of its central topics and a guide to the latest research. After describing the subject's scope and history, it examines conversational and conventional implicature, presupposition, speech act theory, and deixis. It then explores the interfaces between pragmatics and other core areas of inquiry, including cognition (focussing on relevance theory), semantics, and syntax. Professor Huang's lively account contains exercises with suggested solutions, a glossary, and guides to further reading. This is the ideal textb

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Symbols and abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 1.1. What is pragmatics?; 1.1.1. A definition; 1.1.2. A brief history of pragmatics; 1.1.3. Two main schools of thought in pragmatics: Anglo-American versus European Continental; 1.2. Why pragmatics?; 1.2.1. Linguistic underdeterminacy; 1.2.2. Simplification of semantics and syntax; 1.3. Some basic notions in semantics and pragmatics; 1.3.1. Sentence, utterance, proposition; 1.3.2. Context; 1.3.3. Truth value, truth condition, entailment; 1.4. Organization of the book; Key concepts; Exercises and essay questions

Further readingsPart I: Central topics in pragmatics; 2. Implicature; 2.1. Classical Gricean theory of conversational implicature; 2.2. Two neo-Gricean pragmatic theories of conversational implicature; 2.3. Conventional implicature; 2.4. Summary; Key concepts; Exercises and essay questions; Further readings; 3. Presupposition; 3.1. What is presupposition?; 3.2. Properties of presupposition; 3.3. Analyses; 3.4. Summary; Key concepts; Exercises and essay questions; Further readings; 4. Speech acts; 4.1. Performatives versus constatives; 4.2. Austin's felicity conditions on performatives

4.3. Locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary speech acts4.4. Searle's felicity conditions on speech acts; 4.5. Searle's typology of speech acts; 4.6. Indirect speech acts; 4.7. Speech acts and culture; 4.8. Summary; Key concepts; Exercises and essay questions; Further readings; 5. Deixis; 5.1. Preliminaries; 5.2. Basic categories of deixis; 5.3. Other categories of deixis; 5.4. Summary; Key concepts; Exercises and essay questions; Further readings; Part II: Pragmatics and its interfaces; 6. Pragmatics and cognition: relevance theory; 6.1. Relevance

6.2. Explicature, implicature, and conceptual versus procedural meaning6.3. From Fodorian 'central process' to submodule of 'theory of mind'; 6.4. Relevance theory compared with classical/neo-Gricean theory; 6.5. Summary; Key concepts; Exercises and essay questions; Further readings; 7. Pragmatics and semantics; 7.1. Reductionism versus complementarism; 7.2. Drawing the semantics-pragmatics distinction; 7.3. Pragmatic intrusion into what is said and the semantics-pragmatics interface; 7.4. Summary; Key concepts; Exercises and essay questions; Further readings; 8. Pragmatics and syntax

8.1. Chomsky's views about language and linguistics8.2. Chomsky's binding theory; 8.3. Problems for Chomsky's binding theory; 8.4. A revised neo-Gricean pragmatic theory of anaphora; 8.5. Theoretical implications; 8.6. Summary; Key concepts; Exercises and essay questions; Further readings; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; I; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; References; Suggested solutions to exercises; Index of names; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Index of languages; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Index of subjects

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-19-156951-8