Quantity implicatures
In recent years, quantity implicatures - a type of pragmatic inference - have been widely debated in linguistics, philosophy, and psychology, and have been subject to an enormous variety of analyses, ranging from lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic, to various hybrid accounts. In this first...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2010.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42038078*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Gricean pragmatics. 1.1. Saying vs. implicating ; 1.2. Discourse and cooperation ; 1.3. Conversational implicatures ; 1.4. Generalised vs. particularised ; 1.5. Cancellability ; 1.6. Gricean reasoning and the pragmatics of what is said
- 2. The standard recipe for Q-implicatures. 2.1. The standard recipe ; 2.2. Inference to the best explanation ; 2.3. Weak implicatures and competence ; 2.4. Relevance ; 2.5. Conclusion
- 3. Scalar implicatures. 3.1. Horn scales and the generative view ; 3.2. Implicatures and downward entailing environments ; 3.3. Disjunction : exclusivity and ignorance ; 3.4. Conclusion
- 4. Psychological plausibility. 4.1. Charges of psychological inadequacy ; 4.2. Logical complexity ; 4.3. Abduction ; 4.4. Incremental processing ; 4.5. The intentional stance ; 4.6. Alternatives ; 4.7. Conclusion
- 5. Nonce inference or defaults?. 5.1. True defaults ; 5.2. Strong defaultism ; 5.3. Weak defaultism ; 5.4. Contextualism ; 5.5. Conclusion
- 6. Intentions, alternatives, and free choice. 6.1. Free choice ; 6.2. Problems with the standard recipe ; 6.3. Intentions first ; 6.4. Free choice explained ; 6.5. Comparing alternatives ; 6.6. Two flavours of Q-implicature ; 6.7. Conclusion
- 7. Embedded implicatures : the problems. 7.1. The problems ; 7.2. Varieties of conventionalism ; 7.3. Against conventionalism ; 7.4. Conclusion
- 8. Embedded implicatures : a Gricean approach. 8.1. Disjunction ; 8.2. Belief reports ; 8.3. Factives and other presupposition inducers ; 8.4. Indefinites ; 8.5. Contrastive construals and lexical pragmatics ; 8.6 . Conclusion.
