This contribution to Palgrave's "Advances" series addresses a wide range of issues that have arisen in post-Gricean pragmatic theory and presents a range of theoretical positions and approaches. Distinguished authors whose work is well known as lying at the interface of language, logic, linguistics, psychology and cognitive science contribute to the current lively debate within the field, with consideration of relevance theory, neo-Gricean pragmatics, optimality -theoretic pragmatics and experimental work. Among the specific topics covered are scalar implicature, lexical semantics and pragmatics, concepts and concept-adjustment, indexicality, speech acts, procedural meaning and the notion of 'constraint', the explicature-implicature distinction, numerical expressions, the semantics and pragmatics of negation and negative polarity items, and whether successful communication involves 'shared content'.
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
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.
Description
This contribution to Palgrave's "Advances" series addresses a wide range of issues that have arisen in post-Gricean pragmatic theory and presents a range of theoretical positions and approaches. Distinguished authors whose work is well known as lying at the interface of language, logic, linguistics, psychology and cognitive science contribute to the current lively debate within the field, with consideration of relevance theory, neo-Gricean pragmatics, optimality -theoretic pragmatics and experimental work. Among the specific topics covered are scalar implicature, lexical semantics and pragmatics, concepts and concept-adjustment, indexicality, speech acts, procedural meaning and the notion of 'constraint', the explicature-implicature distinction, numerical expressions, the semantics and pragmatics of negation and negative polarity items, and whether successful communication involves 'shared content'.
Contents
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
Authors
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.
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