Intercultural PragmatIcs Page 1 2024 · Volume 21 · Issue 1 Intercultural PragmatIcs edItor-In-chIef
Professor Dr. Istvan Kecskes State University of New York at Albany reVIew edItor Dr. Jesus …

How do we interpret language and expose its meanings? How does pragmatics describe
the English language? Where can we go to acquire a deeper understanding of pragmatics …

This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts,
those of politeness and implicature. A theory of implicature as social action and …

This book offers fresh perspectives on untruthfulness entailed in various forms of irony,
deception and humour, which have so far constituted independent foci of linguistic and …

While lying has been a topic in the philosophy of language, there has been a lack of
genuine linguistic analysis of lying. Exploring lying at the semantics-pragmatics interface …

This book offers a semantic and metasemantic inquiry into the representation of meaning in
linguistic interaction. Kasia Jaszczolt's view represents the most radical stance on meaning …

Although lying is a classical topic in philosophy, and certainly is very important in everyday
life, there is a lack of genuine linguistic analyses of lying. In this article, lying is viewed as a …

Utterances give rise to many potential inferences. They can be communicated explicitly or
implicitly, they may or may not be intended, and they may or may not even be inferred. In this …

In the current debate on the lying-misleading distinction, many theorists distinguish between
lying as insincere assertion and misleading through conveying an untruthful implicature …

Many people follow Grice in thinking that all conversational implicatures are cancellable.
And often enough, they use this insight as a test for conversational implicatures. If you want …