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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Diane BlakemorePublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell Volume: No. 6 Dimensions: Width: 17.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 24.60cm Weight: 0.354kg ISBN: 9780631158677ISBN 10: 0631158677 Pages: 204 Publication Date: 30 April 1992 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. Part I: Fundamentals:. 1. Communication and the Context. 1.1. What do Speakers Communicate?. 1.2. Understanding and Inference. 1.3. The Context. Recommended Reading. Notes. 2. Relevance. 2.1. Standards in Communication. 2.2. The Principle of Relevance. Recommended Reading. Notes. 3. Pragmatics, Linguistics and Literature. 3.1. Carving up Meaning: Semantics and Pragmatists. 3.2. Promises and Poetry. Recommended Reading. Notes. Part II: Explicature:. 4. Explicating and Implicating. Recommended Reading. Notes. 5. The Proposition Expressed. 5.1. Assigning Reference. 5.2. Enrichment. 5.3. Explicatures and Coherence. Recommended Reading. Notes. 6. Higher-Level Explicatures: Attitudes and Speech Acts. 6.1. Speech Acts and Pragmatics. 6.2. Performatives. 6.3. Saying, Telling and Asking. 6.4. Interpretive Use. 6.5. Non-Declarative Utterances: Imperatives. 6.6. Non-Declarative Utterances: Interrogatives. Recommended Reading. Notes. Part III: Implicature:. 7. Types of Implicature. 7.1. Introduction. 7.2. Implicated Premises and Implicated Conclusions. 7.3. Strong and Weak Implicatures. Recommended Reading. Notes. 8. Constraints on Implicatures. 8.1. Connections in Discourse. 8.2. Discourse Connectives as Constraints on Implicatures. 8.3. The Classification of Discourse Connectives. 8.4. Parallel Implications. 8.5. Non-Truth-Conditional Meaning: Semantics and Pragmatics. Recommended Reading. Notes. 9. Implicatures and Style. 9.1. Poetic Effects. 9.2. Metaphor. 9.3. Irony. 9.4. Style. Recommended Reading. Notes. References. Index.ReviewsA clearly written textbook. Punctuated with straightforward exercises and a useful recommended reading list. Journal of Pragmatics Author InformationDiane Blakemore is Lecturer in Linguistics at Southampton University. Her book on Semantic Constraints on Relevance was published by Blackwell in 1987. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |