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Preface | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
I | Fundamentals | |
1 | Communication and the Context | 3 |
1.1 | What do Speakers Communicate? | 3 |
1.2 | Understanding and Inference | 10 |
1.3 | The Context | 16 |
Recommended Reading | 22 | |
Notes | 22 | |
2 | Relevance | 24 |
2.1 | Standards in Communication | 24 |
2.2 | The Principle of Relevance | 32 |
Recommended Reading | 38 | |
Notes | 38 | |
3 | Pragmatics, Linguistics and Literature | 39 |
3.1 | Carving up Meaning: Semantics and Pragmatics | 39 |
3.2 | Promises and Poetry | 48 |
Recommended Reading | 52 | |
Notes | 53 | |
II | Explicature | |
4 | Explicating and Implicating | 57 |
Recommended Reading | 63 | |
Note | 64 | |
5 | The Proposition Expressed | 65 |
5.1 | Assigning Reference | 65 |
5.2 | Enrichment | 77 |
5.3 | Explicatures and Coherence | 84 |
Recommended Reading | 88 | |
Notes | 89 | |
6 | Higher-Level Explicatures: Attitudes and Speech Acts | 91 |
6.1 | Speech Acts and Pragmatics | 91 |
6.2 | Performatives | 95 |
6.3 | Saying, Telling and Asking | 100 |
6.4 | Interpretive Use | 102 |
6.5 | Non-Declarative Utterances: Imperatives | 110 |
6.6 | Non-Declarative Utterances: Interrogatives | 114 |
Recommended Reading | 118 | |
Notes | 119 | |
III | Implicature | |
7 | Types of Implicature | 123 |
7.1 | Introduction | 123 |
7.2 | Implicated Premises and Implicated Conclusions | 125 |
7.3 | Strong and Weak Implicatures | 128 |
Recommended Reading | 133 | |
Note | 133 | |
8 | Constraints on Implicatures | 134 |
8.1 | Connections in Discourse | 134 |
8.2 | Discourse Connectives as Constraints on Implicatures | 136 |
8.3 | The Classification of Discourse Connectives | 137 |
8.4 | Parallel Implications | 142 |
8.5 | Non-Truth-Conditional Meaning: Semantics and Pragmatics | 146 |
Recommended Reading | 151 | |
Notes | 152 | |
9 | Implicatures and Style | 155 |
9.1 | Poetic Effects | 155 |
9.2 | Metaphor | 160 |
9.3 | Irony | 164 |
9.4 | Style | 171 |
Recommended Reading | 178 | |
Notes | 178 | |
References | 180 | |
Index | 186 |
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