Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics-the study of language in use-has been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on …
Doing Pragmatics is a popular reader-friendly introduction to pragmatics. Embracing the comprehensive and engaging style which characterized the previous editions, this fourth …
L Horn - Routledge companion to philosophy of language, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
5 IMPLICATURE Page 1 1.5 IMPLICATURE Laurence Horn A year after unveiling implicature in his William James lectures at Harvard, Paul Grice (1968) published one of the lectures, a …
A Deo - Annu. Rev. Linguist., 2015 - annualreviews.org
It is well established that meanings associated with linguistic expressions evolve in systematic ways across time. We have little precise understanding, though, of why and how …
According to recent work in the new field of lexical pragmatics, the meanings of words are frequently pragmatically adjusted and fine-tuned in context, so that their contribution to the …
WA Davis, WA Davis - Irregular Negatives, Implicatures, and Idioms, 2016 - Springer
The importance of the notion of implicature in the study of irregular negatives was hinted at in Chap. 1. First, one of the leading theories maintains that the irregular interpretations of …
In addition to thin concepts like the good, the bad and the ugly, our evaluative thought and talk appeals to thick concepts like the lewd and the rude, the selfish and the cruel, the …
This dictionary provides a full and authoritative guide to the meanings of the terms, concepts, and theories employed in pragmatics, the study of language in use. Pragmatics is a central …
Page 1 EXPRESSION AND INTERPRETATION OF NEGATION AN OT TYPOLOGY Page 2 studies in natural language and linguistic theory VoluME 77 Managing Editors Marcel den …