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Thoughts and Utterances: The Pragmatics of Explicit Communication Book

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  • Thoughts and Utterances: The Pragmatics of Explicit Communication
  • Written by author Robyn Carston
  • Published by Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated, September 2002
  • Thoughts and Utterances is the first sustained investigation of two distinctions that are fundamental to all theories of utterance understanding: the semantics/pragmatics distinction and the distinction between what is explicitly and what is im
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Acknowledgements
Introduction1
1Pragmatics and Linguistic Underdeterminacy15
1.1Saying and Meaning15
1.2The Underdeterminacy Thesis19
1.3Eternal Sentences and Effability30
1.4Metarepresentation, Relevance and Pragmatic Inference42
1.5Underdeterminacy, Truth Conditions and the Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction48
1.6Radical Underdeterminacy and the Background64
1.7Underdeterminacy of Thought?74
2The Explicit/Implicit Distinction94
2.1Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction95
2.2Grice: Saying/Implicating101
2.3Sperber and Wilson: Relevance-theoretic Distinctions116
2.4Travis and Recanati: Enriched 'What is Said'164
2.5Bach: What is Said/Impliciture/Implicature170
2.6Pragmatic Meaning: Enrichment or Implicature?183
2.7Postscript: Hidden Indexicals or 'Free' Enrichment?197
2.8Conclusion: From Generative Semantics to Pro-active Pragmatics205
3The Pragmatics of 'And'-Conjunction222
3.1Preserving the Truth-functionality of 'And'222
3.2A Relevance-based Pragmatics of Conjunction226
3.3The Semantic Alternatives228
3.4Cognitive Fundamentals: Causality and Explanation235
3.5Relevance Relations and Units of Processing242
3.6Processing Effort and Iconicity250
3.7Residual Issues253
3.8Conclusion: From Generalized Conversational Implicature to Propositional Enrichment257
4The Pragmatics of Negation265
4.1Some Data and Some Distinctions266
4.2Semantic Ambiguity Analyses271
4.3Strong Pragmatic Analyses278
4.4'Presupposition'-cancelling Negation and Metalinguistic Negation291
4.5The Pragmatics of 'Presupposition'-denial302
4.6Conclusion: From Multiple Semantic Ambiguity to Univocal Semantics and Pragmatic Enrichment311
5The Pragmatics of On-line Concept Construction320
5.1Encoded Concepts and Communicated Concepts321
5.2A Symmetrical Account of Narrowing and Broadening334
5.3Metaphor: Loose Use and Ad Hoc Concepts349
5.4Word Meaning and Concepts359
5.5Conclusion: The Long Road from Linguistically Encoded Meaning to the Thought(s) Explicitly Communicated364
App. 1Relevance Theory Glossary376
App. 2Gricean Conversational Principles382
References384
Index408


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