Carston Thoughts and Utterances

The Pragmatics of Explicit Communication
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-75455-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten, E-Book

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carston, Robyn

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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/PragmaticsDistinction.
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-activePragmatics.
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 MetalinguisticNegation.
The Pragmatics of 'Presupposition'-Denial.
Conclusion: From Multiple Semantic Ambiguity to UnivocalSemantics 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 tothe Thought(s) Explicitly Communicated.
Appendix 1: Relevance Theory Glossary.
Appendix 2: Gricean Conversational Principles.
References.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Robyn Carston is Reader in Linguistics at University College London. She is co-editor of Relevance Theory: Applications and Implications (1998).