Implicatures / Sandrine Zufferey, Jacques Moeschler, Anne Reboul.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An 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.

Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Part I Theoretical Foundations; 1 Ordinary Language Philosophy and the Birth of Pragmatics; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Paul Grice's Contribution to Pragmatics; 1.2.1 Meaning; 1.2.2 Implicature; 1.3 Properties of Implicatures; 1.4 Problems with the Gricean Approach; 1.5 Summary; Discussion Questions; Suggested Readings; 2 Linguistic Theory and Pragmatics; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Pragmatics and the Chomskyan Revolution in Linguistics; 2.2.1 Pragmatics as Performance

2.2.2 Reference and Illocutionary Force as Theoretical Issues2.2.3 I-Language, E-Language and Pragmatics; 2.3 The Cognitive Linguistic Trend, Its Origin and Domains; 2.3.1 The Cognitive Linguistics Paradigm; 2.3.2 The Conceptual Semantics Paradigm; 2.4 Two Models of Communication; 2.5 Summary; Discussion Questions; Suggested Readings; 3 Relevance Theory and the Broadening of Pragmatics to Explicit Meaning; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Cognitive Principle of Relevance; 3.3 The Communicative Principle of Relevance; 3.4 The Pragmatics of Explicit Communication

3.5 Relevance Theory and Implicit Communication3.6 Ad Hoc Concepts and Lexical Pragmatics; 3.7 Summary; Discussion Questions; Suggested Readings; Part II Types of Implicature; 4 Particularized Conversational Implicatures: Why There Are Conversational Implicatures; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Metaphors as Implicit Communication; 4.3 Neither the Gricean nor the Relevance-Theoretic Accounts Can Explain the Existence of Conversational Implicatures; 4.4 Recovering Strongly Communicated Implicatures despite the Principle of Cooperation; 4.5 The Possibility of Denial

4.6 Speaker's Commitment and Hearer's Epistemic Vigilance4.7 Summary; Discussion Questions; Suggested Readings; 5 Conventional Implicature and Presupposition: Formal Semantics and Pragmatics; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Gricean Notion of Conventional Implicature; 5.3 Semantic Presupposition; 5.3.1 A Brief History of Semantic Presupposition; 5.3.2 The Issue with the Semantic Account of Presuppositions; 5.4 A Pragmatic Account of Presupposition; 5.5 Presuppositions as Implicatures; 5.6 Presuppositions, Conventional Implicatures and Common Ground; 5.7 The Projection Issue; 5.8 Summary

Discussion QuestionsSuggested Readings; 6 Generalized Conversational Implicatures: Gricean, Neo-Gricean and Post-Gricean Pragmatics; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Gazdar's Interpretation of Generalized Quantitative Implicatures; 6.3 Horn's Scales and the Logical Properties of Scalar Implicatures; 6.4 I-Implicatures; 6.5 The Gricean Circle; 6.6 Implicatures or Explicatures?; 6.7 Return to Grice; 6.8 Summary; Discussion Questions; Suggested Readings; Part III Empirical Evidence; 7 Implicatures and Language Processing; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Pragmatic Theories and the Processing of Implicatures

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