Thoughts and Utterances
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-631-17891-0 (ISBN)
Thoughts and Utterances is the first sustained investigation of two distinctions which are fundamental to all theories of utterance understanding: the semantics/pragmatics distinction and the distinction between what is explicitly communicated and what is implicitly communicated.
Features the first sustained investigation of both the semantics/pragmatics distinction and the distinction between what is explicitly and implicitly communicated in speech.
Robyn Carston is Reader in Linguistics at University College London. She is co-editor of Relevance Theory: Applications and Implications (1998).
Introduction. 1. Pragmatics and Linguistic Underdeterminacy:.
Saying and Meaning.
The Underdeterminacy Thesis.
Eternal Sentences and Effability.
Metarepresentation, Relevance and Pragmatic Inference.
Underdeterminacy, Truth Conditions and the Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction.
Radical Underdeterminacy and the Background.
Underdeterminacy of Thought?.
Summary.
2. The Explicit/Implicit Distinction:.
Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction.
Grice: Saying/Implicating.
Sperber and Wilson: Relevance-theoretic Distinctions.
Travis and Recanati: Enriched ‘What is Said'.
Bach: What is Said/Impliciture/Implicature.
Pragmatic Meaning: Enrichment or Implicature?.
Postscript: Hidden Indexicals or ‘Free Enrichment?.
Conclusion: From Generative Semantics to Pro-active Pragmatics.
3. The Pragmatics of 'And'-Conjunction:.
Preserving the Truth-functionality of 'And'.
A Relevance-based Pragmatics of Conjunction.
The Semantic Alternatives.
Cognitive Fundamentals: Causality and Explanation.
Relevance Relations and Units of Processing.
Processing Effort and Iconicity.
Residual Issues.
Conclusion: From Generalized Conversational Implicature.
4. The Pragmatics of Negation:.
Some Data and Some Distinctions.
Semantic Ambiguity Analyses.
Strong Pragmatic Analyses.
‘Presupposition'-cancelling Negation and Metalinguistic Negation.
The Pragmatics of ‘Presupposition'-Denial.
Conclusion: From Multiple Semantic Ambiguity to Univocal Semantics and Pragmatic Enrichment.
5. The Pragmatics of On-line Concept Construction:.
Encoded Concepts and Communicated Concepts.
A Symmetrical Account of Narrowing and Broadening.
Metaphor: Loose Use and Ad Hoc Concepts.
Word Meaning and Concepts.
Conclusion: The Long Road from Linguistically Encoded Meaning to the Thought(s) Explicitly Communicated.
Appendix 1: Relevance Theory Glossary.
Appendix 2: Gricean Conversational Principles.
References.
Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.9.2002 |
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| Verlagsort | Hoboken |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 187 x 256 mm |
| Gewicht | 1134 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-631-17891-0 / 0631178910 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-631-17891-0 / 9780631178910 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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