Implicitness : from lexis to discourse / edited by Piotr Cap and Marta Dynel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cap, Piotr, editor.

Dynel, Marta, editor.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; Volume 276.

Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 0922-842X ; Volume 276

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Implication (Logic).

Semantics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017.

Summary:

This book aims to help crystallize the concept of implicitness by defining its linguistic boundaries, as well as specifying and exploring its different communicative manifestations.

Contents:

Intro

Implicitness

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Implicitness: Familiar terra incognita in pragmatics

1. Explicating implicitness

2. This collection: Aims and general structure

3. Chapter-by-chapter overview

References

Chapter 2. What's a reading?

1. Introduction

2. Tests identifying interpretation status

3. And-coherence inferences

4. Scalar quantifiers

5. So-called exclusive or interpretations

6. Summary and conclusions

Chapter 3. Pronouns and implicature

1. The expression theory and non-descriptive meaning

2. Indexical meaning and concepts

3. Indexical determinants

4. Sortal and determiner components

5. Pronouns

6. The binding rules

7. Implicature

8. Neo-Gricean explanations of the binding rules

9. Pronoun implicatures arising from their sortals

10. Pronoun implicatures arising from their determiners

11. Independent pronoun implicatures

12. Interrogative and imperative implicatures

Chapter 4. Implicitness in the lexis: Lexical narrowing and neo-Gricean pragmatics

2. Semantic underspecification

3. Classical and neo-Gricean pragmatics

4. Two types of lexical narrowing

5. Pragmatic enrichment involving lexical narrowing: Explicature, the pragmatically enriched said, conversational impliciture or conversational implicature?

Acknowledgements

Chapter 5. Zero subject anaphors and extralinguistically motivated subject pro-drop in Hungarian language use

2. Anaphors, zero anaphors and extralinguistically motivated pro-drop phenomena

3. Zero subject anaphors and extralinguistically motivated subject pro-drop in Hungarian language use

4. Conclusions

References.

Chapter 6. Implicitness via overt untruthfulness: Grice on Quality-based figures of speech

2. Maxim nonfulfilment as the source of implicature

3. Quality and truthfulness

4. Grice's view of metaphor, irony, hyperbole and meiosis and criticism thereof

5. Quality-based figures as an alleged flaw in Grice's proposal of implicature

Epilogue

Chapter 7. Lexical pragmatics and implicit communication: Lexical pragmatics and implicit communication

2. Lexical narrowing

3. The continuum of literal, loose and metaphorical uses

4. When narrowing and broadening combine

5. The scope of a theory of communication

6. Concluding remarks

Chapter 8. Indirect ritual offence: A study on elusive impoliteness

2. Indirect ritual offence

3. Data

4. Analysis

5. Conclusion

Chapter 9. Implicitness in the use of situation-bound utterances: Implicitness in the use of situation-bound utterances

2. Characteristics of situation-bound utterances

3. Tacit knowledge

4. Context-dependence of implicitly conveyed information

5. Can SBUs be underspecified?

6. Conclusion

Chapter 10. Thematic silence as a speech act

2. Intentional and unintentional silence

3. Implicit speech acts

4. Thematic silence in a political speech

Chapter 11. The dynamics of discourse: Quantity meets quality

2. Discourse unit: Relational and doubly contextual

3. Discourse relations: Dovetailed and multiply discursive

4. Pragmatic discourse and discourse pragmatics

5. Discourse pragmatics in action

Chapter 12. Why don't you tell it explicitly?: Personal/subpersonal accounts of implicitness

1. Overview

2. Personal/subpersonal explanations of implicitness and politeness

3. An automatic/controlled continuum of processing

4. Motives for implicitness

5. Conclusions

chapter 13. Implicature and the inferential substrate

1. Implicature and inference

2. The inferential substrate of interaction

3. Embedded and exposed inferables in initial interactions

4. Implicature as social action

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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