Implicatures
Implicatures
Jacques Moeschler, Université de Genève
Anne Reboul, Institute for Cognitive Sciences-Marc Jeannerod, CNRS UMR 5304
An accessible and thorough introduction to implicatures, a key topic in all frameworks of pragmatics. Starting with a definition of the various types of implicatures in Gricean, neo-Gricean and post-Gricean pragmatics, the book covers many important questions for current pragmatic theories, namely: the distinction between explicit and implicit forms of pragmatic enrichment, the criteria for drawing a line between semantic and pragmatic meaning, the relations between the structure of language (syntax) and its use (pragmatics), the social and cognitive factors underlying the use of implicatures by native speakers, and the factors influencing their acquisition for children and second language learners. Written in non-technical language, Implicatures will appeal to students and teachers in linguistics, applied linguistics, psychology and sociology, who are interested in how language is used for communication, and how children and learners develop pragmatic skills.
- Provides a global view of past and present research on implicatures
- Explains in accessible language empirical research findings, providing readers with a clear understanding
- Shows readers how different interfaces of pragmatics are situated within theories of language and how they interact with social and cognitive psychology
Reviews & endorsements
'… will be indispensable for those focussing on implicatures in teaching or research. Most helpful is its consideration of implicatures from within the three different frameworks. I commend the authors for this useful contribution to the field of pragmatics.' Todd A. Scacewater, Journal of Language, Culture, and Religion
‘Given the extent to which Implicatures manages not only to provide a concise overview of the topic, but also to introduce novel perspectives in relation to it, it is bound to become an indispensable resource for both newcomers and established researchers in these fields. I am certain that several of its main arguments … have a real potential to push our understanding of the issues that surround this notoriously elusive, but at the same time all too interesting, category of linguistic meaning even further.’ Stavros Assimakopoulos, Language
Product details
October 2021Paperback
9781107565234
263 pages
215 × 140 × 15 mm
0.34kg
21 b/w illus. 6 tables
Available
Table of Contents
- Part I. Theoretical Foundations:
- 1. Ordinary language philosophy and the birth of pragmatics
- 2. Linguistic theory and pragmatics
- 3. Relevance theory and the broadening of pragmatics to explicit meaning
- Part II. Types of Implicatures:
- 4. Particularized Conversational Implicatures: why there are conversational implicatures
- 5. Conventional implicature and presupposition: formal semantics and pragmatics
- 6. Generalized conversational implicatures: Gricean, neo-Gricean and post-Gricean pragmatics
- Part III. Empirical Evidence:
- 7. Implicatures and language processing
- 8. The acquisition of implicatures in the course of first language development
- 9. Implicatures and second language acquisition
- Conclusion.
