Overview

This volume addresses issues that have arisen in post-Gricean pragmatic theory. Among the specific topics covered are scalar implicatures, lexical semantics and pragmatics, indexicality, procedural meaning, the semantics and pragmatics of negation. The volume includes both defences and critiques of Relevance Theory and of Neo-Gricean Pragmatics.

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Author:   N. Burton-Roberts ,  Kenneth A. Loparo ,  Kenneth A. Loparo ,  Kenneth A. Loparo
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9781403986986

ISBN 10:   1403986983
Pages:   267
Publication Date:   16 May 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Introduction; N.Burton-Roberts On a Pragmatic Explanation of Negative Polarity Licensing; J.D.Atlas Regressions in Pragmatics (and Semantics); K.Bach Constraints, Concepts and Procedural Encoding; D.Blakemore Optimality Theoretic Pragmatics and the Explicature/Implicature Distinction; R.Blutner Varieties of Semantics and Encoding: Negation, Narrowing/Loosening and Numericals; N.Burton-Roberts Relevance Theory and Shared Content; H.Cappelen & E.Lepore Concepts and Word Meaning in Relevance Theory; M.Groefsema Neo-Gricean Pragmatics: A Manichaean Manifesto; L.Horn The Why and How of Experimental Pragmatics: The Case of 'Scalar Inferences'; I.Noveck & D.Sperber Indexicality, Context, and Pretence: A Speech-Act Theoretic Account; F.Recanati A Unitary Approach to Lexical Pragmatics: Relevance, Inference and Ad Hoc Concepts; D.Wilson & R.Carston Index

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NOEL BURTON-ROBERTS is Professor of English Language and Linguistics, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. He is the author of Analysing Sentences: Introduction to English Syntax, Phonological Knowledge: Conceptual and Empirical Issues (with Philip Carr and Gerard Docherty) and The Limits to Debate: A Revised Theory of Semantic Presupposition. He is the series editor (with Maggie Tallerman) for Palgrave Macmillan's Modern Linguistics series, and (with Richard Breheny) of Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition.<

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