When is language considered'impolite'? Is impolite language only used for anti-social
purposes? Can impolite language be creative? What is the difference between'impoliteness' …

Many children and adults experience significant breakdown in the use of language. The
resulting pragmatic disorders present a considerable barrier to effective communication …

There is now an extensive empirical literature on the nature and extent of pragmatic
disorders in a range of clinical populations. This chapter attempts to organize the findings of …

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 …

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

Social media content is changing the way people interact with each other and share
information, personal messages, and opinions about situations, objects, and past …

Arguably, forty years on, post-Gricean pragmatics is still the most successful and
methodologically most rigorous approach to utterance meaning. However, and perhaps as a …

Semantics and pragmatics-the study of meaning, and meaning in context, respectively-are
two fundamental areas of linguistics, and as such are crucial to our understanding of how …

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 …

In 1986, the emergence of a novel brain disease in British cattle presented a unique
challenge to scientists. How that challenge was addressed has been the subject of a public …