Implicitness : from lexis to discourse

Implicitness : from lexis to discourse / edited by Piotr Cap and Marta Dynel.

This book aims to help crystallize the concept of implicitness by defining its linguistic boundaries, as well as specifying and exploring its different communicative manifestations.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cap, Piotr (Editor), Dynel, Marta (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 276.
Subjects:
Discourse analysis.
Implication (Logic)
Semantics.
semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Discourse analysis
Semantics
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Table of Contents:
  • Implicitness; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Chapter 1. Implicitness: Familiar terra incognita in pragmatics; 1. Explicating implicitness; 2. This collection: Aims and general structure; 3. Chapter-by-chapter overview; References; Chapter 2. What's a reading?; 1. Introduction; 2. Tests identifying interpretation status; 3. And-coherence inferences; 4. Scalar quantifiers; 5. So-called exclusive or interpretations; 6. Summary and conclusions; References; Chapter 3. Pronouns and implicature; 1. The expression theory and non-descriptive meaning.
  • 2. Indexical meaning and concepts3. Indexical determinants; 4. Sortal and determiner components; 5. Pronouns; 6. The binding rules; 7. Implicature; 8. Neo-Gricean explanations of the binding rules; 9. Pronoun implicatures arising from their sortals; 10. Pronoun implicatures arising from their determiners; 11. Independent pronoun implicatures; 12. Interrogative and imperative implicatures; References; Chapter 4. Implicitness in the lexis: Lexical narrowing and neo-Gricean pragmatics; 1. Introduction; 2. Semantic underspecification; 3. Classical and neo-Gricean pragmatics.
  • 4. Two types of lexical narrowing5. Pragmatic enrichment involving lexical narrowing: Explicature, the pragmatically enriched said, conversational impliciture or conversational implicature?; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 5. Zero subject anaphors and extralinguistically motivated subject pro-drop in Hungarian language use; 1. Introduction; 2. Anaphors, zero anaphors and extralinguistically motivated pro-drop phenomena; 3. Zero subject anaphors and extralinguistically motivated subject pro-drop in Hungarian language use; 4. Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References.
  • Chapter 6. Implicitness via overt untruthfulness: Grice on Quality-based figures of speech1. Introduction; 2. Maxim nonfulfilment as the source of implicature; 3. Quality and truthfulness; 4. Grice's view of metaphor, irony, hyperbole and meiosis and criticism thereof; 5. Quality-based figures as an alleged flaw in Grice's proposal of implicature; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 7. Lexical pragmatics and implicit communication: Lexical pragmatics and implicit communication; 1. Introduction; 2. Lexical narrowing; 3. The continuum of literal, loose and metaphorical uses.
  • 4. When narrowing and broadening combine5. The scope of a theory of communication; 6. Concluding remarks; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 8. Indirect ritual offence: A study on elusive impoliteness; 1. Introduction; 2. Indirect ritual offence; 3. Data; 4. Analysis; 5. Conclusion; References; Chapter 9. Implicitness in the use of situation-bound utterances: Implicitness in the use of situation-bound utterances; 1. Introduction; 2. Characteristics of situation-bound utterances; 3. Tacit knowledge; 4. Context-dependence of implicitly conveyed information; 5. Can SBUs be underspecified?

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