| Description |
xi, 267 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Palgrave advances in linguistics |
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Palgrave advances |
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Palgrave advances.
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Palgrave advances in linguistics.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction / Noel Burton-Roberts -- 2. On a pragmatic explanation of negative polarity licensing / Jay David Atlas -- 3. Regressions in pragmatics (and semantics) / Kent Bach -- 4. Constraints, concepts and procedural encoding / Diane Blakemore -- 5. Optimality theoretic pragmatics and the explicature/implicature distinction / Reinhard Blutner -- 6. Varieties of semantics and encoding : negation, narrowing/loosening and numericals / Noel Burton-Roberts -- 7. Relevance theory and shared content / Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore -- 8. Concepts and word meaning in relevance theory / Marjolein Groefsema -- 9. Neo-Gricean pragmatics : a Manichaean manifesto / Laurence R. Horn -- 10. The why and how of experimental pragmatics : the case of 'scalar inferences' / Ira Noveck and Dan Sperber -- 11. Indexicality, context and pretence : a speech-act theoretic account / Francois Recanati |
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12. A unitary approach to lexical pragmatics : relevance, inference and ad hoc concepts / Deirdre Wilson and Robyn Carston |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Pragmatics.
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| Author |
Burton-Roberts, Noel, 1948-
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| LC no. |
2006053450 |
| ISBN |
9781403986986 cloth |
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1403986983 cloth |
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9781403986993 paperback |
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1403986991 paperback |
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