Pragmatics

by Jillian Rickly, Jay David Atlas, Kent Bach, Herman Cappelen, Ira A. Noveck, Francois Recanati, Dan Sperber, Deirdre Wilson, Diane Blakemore, Robyn Carston, Laurence R. Horn, Ernest Lepore, Reinhard Blutner, F J Osborn

Overview

This contribution to Palgrave's 'Advances' series addresses a wide range of issues that have arisen in post-Gricean pragmatic theory and presents a range of theoretical positions and approaches. Distinguished authors whose work is well known as lying at the interface of language, logic, linguistics, psychology and cognitive science contribute to the current lively debate within the field, with considerations of relevance theory, neo-Gricean pragmatics, optimality - theoretic pragmatics and experimental work. Among the specific topics covered are scalar implicature, lexical semantics and pragmatics, concepts and concept-adjustment, indexicality, speech acts, procedural meaning and the notion of 'constraint', the explicature-implicature distinction, numerical expressions, the semantics and pragmatics of negation and negative polarity items, and whether successful communication involves 'shared content'.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403986993
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	05/10/2007
Series:	Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics Series
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	267
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

JAY DAVID ATLAS is Peter W. Stanley Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at Pomona College, USA
KENT BACH is Professor of Philosophy, San Francisco State University, USA
DIANE BLAKEMORE is Professor of Linguistics and Associate Head (Research) in the School of Languages, European Studies Research Institute, Salford University, UK
REINHARD BLUTNER is Privatdozent at the Humboldt-University in Berlin, Germany
HERMAN CAPPELEN is Lecturer in Philosophy University of Oxford, UK
MARJOLEIN GROEFSEMA is Subject Leader for English Language and Communication, School of Humanities, University of Hertfordshire, UK
LAURENCE R. HORN is Professor of Linguistics and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Yale University, USA
ERNEST LEPORE is Director for the Rutgers University Centre for Cognitive Science (RuCCS), USA
IRA NOVECK is a research scientist at the Institute of Cognitive Science, Lyon, France
DAN SPERBER is Director of Research at the Institute of Cognitive Science, Lyon, France
FRANÇOIS RECANATI is Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Paris, France.
DEIRDRE WILSON is Professor of Linguistics, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London, UK
ROBYN CARSTON is Professor of Linguistics, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London, UK

Table of Contents

Series preface     vii
Notes on contributors     ix
Introduction   Noel Burton-Roberts     1
On a pragmatic explanation of negative polarity licensing   Jay David Atlas     10
Regressions in pragmatics (and semantics)   Kent Bach     24
Constraints, concepts and procedural encoding   Diane Blakemore     45
Optimality theoretic pragmatics and the explicature/implicature distinction   Reinhard Blutner     67
Varieties of semantics and encoding: negation, narrowing/loosening and numericals   Noel Burton-Roberts     90
Relevance theory and shared content   Herman Cappelen   Ernie Lepore     115
Concepts and word meaning in relevance theory   Marjolein Groefsema     136
Neo-gricean pragmatics: a manichaean manifesto   Laurence R. Horn     158
The why and how of experimental pragmatics: the case of 'scalar inferences'   Ira Noveck   Dan Sperber     184
Indexicality, context and pretence: a speech-act theoretic account   Francois Recanati     213
A unitary approach to lexical pragmatics: relevance, inference and ad hoc concepts   Deirdre Wilson   Robyn Carston     230
Index     260