Implicatures (Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics)
Cambridge University Press, 6/13/2019
EAN 9781107125650, ISBN10: 1107125650
Hardcover, 264 pages, 22.4 x 21.1 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
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.
Part I. Theoretical Foundations
1. Ordinary language philosophy and the birth of pragmatics
2. Linguistic theory and pragmatics
3. Relevance theory and the broadening of pragmatics to explicit meaning
Part II. Types of Implicatures
4. Particularized Conversational Implicatures
why there are conversational implicatures
5. Conventional implicature and presupposition
formal semantics and pragmatics
6. Generalized conversational implicatures
Gricean, neo-Gricean and post-Gricean pragmatics
Part III. Empirical Evidence
7. Implicatures and language processing
8. The acquisition of implicatures in the course of first language development
9. Implicatures and second language acquisition
Conclusion.