Fr. 166.00

Implicatures

English · Hardback

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Offers an accessible and thorough introduction to implicatures in pragmatics, and its interfaces with language and cognition.

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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.

About the author

Sandrine Zufferey is full professor of French linguistics at the Universität Bern, Switzerland.Jacques Moeschler is full professor of French Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics, Université de Genève, Switzerland.Anne Reboul is a senior researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris.

Summary

An accessible and thorough introduction to implicatures, a key topic in pragmatics. It 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 second language learners develop pragmatic skills.

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