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Understanding Utterances Diane Blakemore

Understanding Utterances par Diane Blakemore

Understanding Utterances Diane Blakemore


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Résumé

This textbook provides an introduction to pragmatics from the point of view of Sperber and Wilsona s Relevance Theory. The first part lays down the foundations of a relevance theoretic approach to utterance understanding, which is then applied to the analysis of a range of phenomena which are central to pragmatics.

Understanding Utterances Résumé

Understanding Utterances: An Introduction to Pragmatics Diane Blakemore

This textbook provides an introduction to pragmatics from the point of view of Sperber and Wilsona s Relevance Theory. The first part lays down the foundations of a relevance theoretic approach to utterance understanding, which is then applied to the analysis of a range of phenomena which are central to pragmatics.

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"A clearly written textbook. Punctuated with straightforward exercises and a useful recommended reading list." Journal of Pragmatics

À propos de Diane Blakemore

Diane Blakemore is Lecturer in Linguistics at Southampton University. Her book on Semantic Constraints on Relevance was published by Blackwell in 1987.

Sommaire

Preface. Acknowledgements. Part I: Fundamentals:. 1. Communication and the Context. 1.1. What do Speakers Communicate?. 1.2. Understanding and Inference. 1.3. The Context. Recommended Reading. Notes. 2. Relevance. 2.1. Standards in Communication. 2.2. The Principle of Relevance. Recommended Reading. Notes. 3. Pragmatics, Linguistics and Literature. 3.1. Carving up Meaning: Semantics and Pragmatists. 3.2. Promises and Poetry. Recommended Reading. Notes. Part II: Explicature:. 4. Explicating and Implicating. Recommended Reading. Notes. 5. The Proposition Expressed. 5.1. Assigning Reference. 5.2. Enrichment. 5.3. Explicatures and Coherence. Recommended Reading. Notes. 6. Higher--Level Explicatures: Attitudes and Speech Acts. 6.1. Speech Acts and Pragmatics. 6.2. Performatives. 6.3. Saying, Telling and Asking. 6.4. Interpretive Use. 6.5. Non--Declarative Utterances: Imperatives. 6.6. Non--Declarative Utterances: Interrogatives. Recommended Reading. Notes. Part III: Implicature:. 7. Types of Implicature. 7.1. Introduction. 7.2. Implicated Premises and Implicated Conclusions. 7.3. Strong and Weak Implicatures. Recommended Reading. Notes. 8. Constraints on Implicatures. 8.1. Connections in Discourse. 8.2. Discourse Connectives as Constraints on Implicatures. 8.3. The Classification of Discourse Connectives. 8.4. Parallel Implications. 8.5. Non--Truth--Conditional Meaning: Semantics and Pragmatics. Recommended Reading. Notes. 9. Implicatures and Style. 9.1. Poetic Effects. 9.2. Metaphor. 9.3. Irony. 9.4. Style. Recommended Reading. Notes. References. Index.

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GOR001473819
9780631158677
0631158677
Understanding Utterances: An Introduction to Pragmatics Diane Blakemore
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
1992-04-30
204
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