ImplicaturesAn accessible and thorough introduction to implicatures, a key topic in all frameworks of pragmatics. Starting with a definition of the various types of implicatures in Gricean, neo-Gricean and post-Gricean pragmatics, the book covers many important questions for current pragmatic theories, namely: the distinction between explicit and implicit forms of pragmatic enrichment, the criteria for drawing a line between semantic and pragmatic meaning, the relations between the structure of language (syntax) and its use (pragmatics), the social and cognitive factors underlying the use of implicatures by native speakers, and the factors influencing their acquisition for children and second language learners. Written in non-technical language, Implicatures will appeal to students and teachers in linguistics, applied linguistics, psychology and sociology, who are interested in how language is used for communication, and how children and learners develop pragmatic skills. |
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ability to derive alternative answer approach assumption Bronston c-commands Chapter Chomsky cognitive linguistics common ground communicated implicatures competence concept context conventional Cooperative Principle derivation of implicatures discussed EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE entails example explicatures explicit Gazdar GCIs grammar Grice Gricean account guistic Gwendolyn hearer Horn’s I-language illocutionary force implicated Implicature and Presupposition implicit communication implicit meaning indirect speech acts inference inferential interface Jackendoff John king of France learners Levinson lexical linguistic meaning Linguistic Theory logical interpretation maxim of Quantity meaningNN metaphors metapragmatic negation neo-Gricean notion of implicature Ockham’s Razor ordinary language philosophy paradigm particularized conversational implicatures particularized implicatures Peter Pinker plausible denial post-Gricean principle of relevance proposition question relation relevance implicatures relevance theory scalar implicatures scalar words second language Second Language Acquisition Section semantics and pragmatics sentence meaning speaker meaning specific structure studies syntax THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS Theory and Pragmatics triggered truth-conditional TYPES OF IMPLICATURE utterance