Pragmatic Inference - Misunderstandings, Accountability, Deniability

This Element investigates the role that inference plays in pragmatic models of communication, bringing together a range of scholarship that characterises inference in different ways for different purposes.

List of contents

1. Pragmatic inference: a concept with many faces; 2. 'Faulty inferences': speaker intentions, indeterminate meanings, and misunderstandings; 3. Commitment and accountability; 4. Inference strength and deniability; 5. Concluding remarks on the study of pragmatic inference; References.

Summary

This Element investigates the role that inference plays in pragmatic models of communication, bringing together a range of scholarship that characterises inference in different ways for different purposes.

Foreword

This Element explores pragmatic inference, examining how inferences are misunderstood and negotiated in interaction.

Product details

• Authors: Chi-He Elder, Chi-Hé Elder, Chi-He (University of East Anglia) Elder
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2024
• EAN: 9781009005708
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0900570-8
• No. of pages: 82
• Series: Elements in Pragmatics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Pragmatism, Communication Studies, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc