Understanding utterances

by Blakemore, Diane

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Full title :Understanding utterances / Diane Blakemore.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1992

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Blackwell
Place of Publication:Oxford, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1992

Notes

Cover subtitle: An introduction to pragmatics.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 191 pages ; : 26 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0631158669, 9780631158660, 0631158677, 9780631158677
oclc:ocm25026522
LC Classification:P99.4.P72
Dewey Decimal:306.4/4

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 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 pragmatics -- 3.2. Promises and poetry -- Recommended reading -- Notes -- II. Explicature -- 4. Explicating and implicating -- Recommended reading -- Note -- 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 -- III. Implicature -- 7. Types of implicature -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Implicated premises and implicated conclusions -- 7.3. Strong and weak implicatures -- Recommended re…