Del i serien Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics

Understanding Utterances

An Introduction to Pragmatics

Häftad, Engelska, 1992

659 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

This textbook provides an introduction to pragmatics from the point of view of Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory. The first part lays down the foundations of a relevance theoretic approach to utterance understanding, which is then applied to the analysis of a range of phenomena which are central to pragmatics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1992-04-30
Mått172 x 246 x 12 mm
Vikt354 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBlackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
Antal sidor204
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9780631158677

Tillhör följande kategorier

Språkvetenskap och lingvistik inom Språk och ordböcker

Preface. Acknowledgements.Part I: Fundamentals:.1. Communication and the Context.1.1. What do Speakers Communicate?.1.2. Understanding and Inference.1.3. The Context.Recommended Reading.Notes.2. Relevance.2.1. Standards in Communication.2.2. The Principle of Relevance.Recommended Reading.Notes.3. Pragmatics, Linguistics and Literature.3.1. Carving up Meaning: Semantics and Pragmatists.3.2. Promises and Poetry.Recommended Reading.Notes.Part II: Explicature:.4. Explicating and Implicating.Recommended Reading.Notes.5. The Proposition Expressed.5.1. Assigning Reference.5.2. Enrichment.5.3. Explicatures and Coherence.Recommended Reading.Notes.6. Higher-Level Explicatures: Attitudes and Speech Acts.6.1. Speech Acts and Pragmatics.6.2. Performatives.6.3. Saying, Telling and Asking.6.4. Interpretive Use.6.5. Non-Declarative Utterances: Imperatives.6.6. Non-Declarative Utterances: Interrogatives.Recommended Reading.Notes.Part III: Implicature:.7. Types of Implicature.7.1. Introduction.7.2. Implicated Premises and Implicated Conclusions.7.3. Strong and Weak Implicatures.Recommended Reading.Notes.8. Constraints on Implicatures.8.1. Connections in Discourse.8.2. Discourse Connectives as Constraints on Implicatures.8.3. The Classification of Discourse Connectives.8.4. Parallel Implications.8.5. Non-Truth-Conditional Meaning: Semantics and Pragmatics.Recommended Reading.Notes.9. Implicatures and Style.9.1. Poetic Effects.9.2. Metaphor.9.3. Irony.9.4. Style.Recommended Reading.Notes.References.Index.