This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers
an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of …

Relevance theory may be seen as an attempt to work out in detail one of Grice's central
claims: that an essential feature of most human communication is the expression and …

Thinking and speaking about time is ridden with puzzles and paradoxes. How do human
beings conceptualize time? Why, for example, does the availability of tense vary in different …

Surprising as it may seem, sometimes humans like being led up the garden path, which is
thanks to the pleasurable feeling of surprise entwined with a humorous effect deception …

Abstract The objective of Default Semantics is to model utterance meaning as intended by
the Model Speaker and recovered by the Model Addressee. The constructs of model …

The aim of this paper is to reflect on the necessity of pragmatic development of propositional
forms and arrive at a better understanding of the level of meaning which Sperber and Wilson …

Lexical pragmatics studies the processes by which lexically encoded meanings are modified
in use; well-studied examples include lexical narrowing, approximation and metaphorical …

Abstract Among the criteria Grice (Studies in the Way of Words, Harvard University Press,
1989: 39–40) proposed for identifying conversational implicatures, cancelability is …

I address the question how to delimit the concept of a proposition that would suit the purpose
of theories of meaning in discourse–meaning that is conveyed by the speaker, recovered by …

The boundary between semantics and pragmatics has been the subject of heated debates
in post-Gricean theories of meaning and communication. In this chapter I present a survey of …