Saying, Meaning, Implicating
Author : Georg Meggle
Publisher : Leipziger Universitätsverlag
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 16,53 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Connotation (Linguistics)
ISBN : 9783935693561
The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics
Author : Keith Allan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 967 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139501895
Book Description
Pragmatics is the study of human communication: the choices speakers make to express their intended meaning and the kinds of inferences that hearers draw from an utterance in the context of its use. This Handbook surveys pragmatics from different perspectives, presenting the main theories in pragmatic research, incorporating seminal research as well as cutting-edge solutions. It addresses questions of rational and empirical research methods, what counts as an adequate and successful pragmatic theory, and how to go about answering problems raised in pragmatic theory. In the fast-developing field of pragmatics, this Handbook fills the gap in the market for a one-stop resource to the wide scope of today's research and the intricacy of the many theoretical debates. It is an authoritative guide for graduate students and researchers with its focus on the areas and theories that will mark progress in pragmatic research in the future.
The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language
Author : Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Publisher :
Page : 831 pages
File Size : 15,91 MB
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 110849238X
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to contemporary investigations into the relationship between language, philosophy, and linguistics.
Implicatures
Author : Sandrine Zufferey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 24,98 MB
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107125650
Book Description
Offers an accessible and thorough introduction to implicatures in pragmatics, and its interfaces with language and cognition.
Studies in the Way of Words
Author : Paul Grice
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 11,3 MB
Release : 1991-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674254201
Book Description
This volume, Paul Grice’s first book, includes the long-delayed publication of his enormously influential 1967 William James Lectures. But there is much, much more in this work. Grice himself has carefully arranged and framed the sequence of essays to emphasize not a certain set of ideas but a habit of mind, a style of philosophizing. Grice has, to be sure, provided philosophy with crucial ideas. His account of speaker-meaning is the standard that others use to define their own minor divergences or future elaborations. His discussion of conversational implicatures has given philosophers an important tool for the investigation of all sorts of problems; it has also laid the foundation for a great deal of work by other philosophers and linguists about presupposition. His metaphysical defense of absolute values is starting to be considered the beginning of a new phase in philosophy. This is a vital book for all who are interested in Anglo-American philosophy.
Implicature
Author : Wayne A. Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 2007-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521038065
Book Description
H. P. Grice's theory of implicature provides the leading paradigm for research in pragmatics. Wayne Davis argues controversially that Gricean theory does not work. In developing his argument the author explains that the psycho-social principles actually define the social function of implicature conventions, which contribute to the satisfaction of those principles. By offering a searching and systematic critique of one of the established doctrines in the philosophy of language, this challenging book will be of particular importance to philosophers of language and linguists, especially those working in pragmatics and socio-linguistics.
The Handbook of Pragmatics
Author : Laurence Horn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0470756713
Book Description
The Handbook of Pragmatics is a collection of newly commissioned articles that provide an authoritative and accessible introduction to the field, including an overview of the foundations of pragmatic theory and a detailed examination of the rich and varied theoretical and empirical subdomains of pragmatics. Contains 32 newly commissioned articles that outline the central themes and challenges for current research in the field of linguistic pragmatics. Provides authoritative and accessible introduction to the field and a detailed examination of the varied theoretical and empirical subdomains of pragmatics. Includes extensive bibliography that serves as a research tool for those working in pragmatics and allied fields in linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science. Valuable resource for both students and professional researchers investigating the properties of meaning, reference, and context in natural language.
Irregular Negatives, Implicatures, and Idioms
Author : Wayne A. Davis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 12,17 MB
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 940177546X
Book Description
The author integrates, expands, and deepens his previous publications about irregular (or “metalinguistic”) negations. A total of ten distinct negatives—several previously unclassified—are analyzed. The logically irregular negations deny different implicatures of their root. All are partially non-compositional but completely conventional. The author argues that two of the irregular negative meanings are implicatures. The others are semantically rather than pragmatically ambiguous. Since their ambiguity is neither lexical nor structural, direct irregular negatives satisfy the standard definition of idioms as syntactically complex expressions whose meaning is non-compositional. Unlike stereotypical idioms, idiomatic negatives lack fixed syntactic forms and are highly compositional. The final chapter analyzes other “free form” idioms, including irregular interrogatives and comparatives, self-restricted verb phrases, numerical verb phrases, and transparent propositional attitude and speech act reports.
Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language Volume 2
Author : Ernest Lepore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0192658980
Book Description
Philosophy of language has been at the center of philosophical research at least since the start of the 20th century. Since that 'linguistic turn' much of the most important work in philosophy has related to language. But until now there has been no regular forum for outstanding original work in this area. That is what Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language offers. Anyone wanting to know what's happening in philosophy of language could start with these volumes.
Meaning and Analysis: New Essays on Grice
Author : Richard Breheny
Publisher : Springer
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 39,65 MB
Release : 2010-10-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0230282113
Book Description
The anthology 'Meaning and Analysis' addresses the key topics of H. Paul Grice's philosophy of language, such as rationality, non-natural meaning, communicative actions, conversational implicatures, the semantics-pragmatics distinction and recent debates concerning minimalist versus contextualist semantics.
