Pragmatics

Noel BURTON-ROBERTS [dir.], Pragmatics, New York, Palgrave Macmillan (Advances), 2007, 288 p.
ISBN 1-4039-8699-1


RÉSUMÉ

This contribution to Palgrave's 'Advances' series addresses a wide range of issues that have arisen in post-Gricean pragmatic theory, in chapters by distinguished authors. Among the specific topics covered are scalar implicatures, lexical semantics and pragmatics, indexicality, procedural meaning, the semantics and pragmatics of negation. The volume includes both defences and critiques of Relevance Theory and of Neo-Gricean Pragmatics.


TABLE DES MATIÈRES

Notes on Contributors
Introduction--N.Burton-Roberts
On a Pragmatic Explanation of Negative Polarity Licensing--J.D.Atlas
Regressions in Pragmatics (and Semantics)--K.Bach
Constraints, Concepts and Procedural Encoding--D.Blakemore
Optimality Theoretic Pragmatics and the Explicature/Implicature Distinction--R.Blutner
Varieties of Semantics and Encoding: Negation, Narrowing/Loosening and Numericals--N.Burton-Roberts
Relevance Theory and Shared Content--H.Cappelen & E.Lepore
Concepts and Word Meaning in Relevance Theory--M.Groefsema
Neo-Gricean Pragmatics: A Manichaean Manifesto--L.Horn
The Why and How of Experimental Pragmatics: The Case of 'Scalar Inferences'--I.Noveck & D.Sperber
Indexicality, Context, and Pretence: A Speech-Act Theoretic Account--F.Recanati
A Unitary Approach to Lexical Pragmatics: Relevance, Inference and Ad Hoc Concepts--D.Wilson & R.Carston
Index

À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR

Noel Burton-Roberts is Professor of English Language and Linguistics, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. He is the author of Analysing Sentences: Introduction to English Syntax, Phonological Knowledge: Conceptual and Empirical Issues (with Philip Carr and Gerard Docherty) and The Limits to Debate: A Revised Theory of Semantic Presupposition. He is the series editor (with Maggie Tallerman) for Palgrave Macmillan's Modern Linguistics series, and (with Richard Breheny) of Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition.