Presumptive Meanings - The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature

This is the first extended discussion of preferred interpretation in language understanding, integrating much of the best research in linguistic pragmatics from the last two decades.

About the author

Stephen C. Levinson is Director of the Language and Cognition Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen C. Levinson, Stephen C. (Director Levinson
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.2000
• EAN: 9780262621304
• ISBN: 978-0-262-62130-4
• No. of pages: 504
• Dimensions: 173 mm x 226 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 811 g
• Series: Language, Speech, and Communication; Presumptive Meanings
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures