Quantity Implicatures

Informationen zum Autor Bart Geurts is based in the Department of Philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen. Klappentext Presents a theory of quantity implicatures, a type of pragmatic inference which is widely debated in linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. Zusammenfassung A pioneering study of quantity implicatures! a type of pragmatic inference which has been widely debated in linguistics! philosophy! and psychology. It argues that the Gricean approach to conversational implicature can account for all the standard cases of quantity implicature! and also takes into account experimental data and processing issues. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Grice; 2. The standard recipe for Q-implicatures; 3. Scalar implicatures; 4. Psychological plausibility; 5. Nonce inferences or defaults?; 6. Intentions, alternatives, and free choice; 7. Embedded implicatures: the problems; 8. Embedded implicatures: a Gricean approach.

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• Authors: Bart Geurts, Bart (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) Geurts, Geurts Bart
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.12.2010
• EAN: 9780521769136
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76913-6
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc