- •Xford Introductions to Language Study
- •It furthers the .University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship,
- •No unauthorized photocopying
- •Readings
- •XII preface
- •XIV preface
- •4 Survey
- •The pragmatics wastebasket
- •Deixis and distance
- •10 Survey
- •14 Survey
- •Reference and inference
- •22 Survey
- •Presupposition and entailment
- •26 Survey
- •Cooperation and implicature
- •38 Survey
- •If the speaker goes on to describe those linguistics courses as in [13], then we can identify some more scalar implicatures.
- •Speech acts and events
- •46 Survey
- •56 Survey
- •Politeness and interaction
- •Self and other: say nothing
- •62 Survey
- •Say something: off and on record
- •I face saving act
- •Conversation and preference structure
- •72 Survey
- •74 Survey
- •Insertion sequence is provided, the second part (Ai) of the initial question (Qi) will follow. This pattern is illustrated in [13].
- •Discourse and culture
- •82 Survey
- •86 Survey
- •94 Readings
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- •Text 13
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- •Text 16
- •Text 17
- •Text 18
- •Text 19
- •Text 21
- •Text 22
- •114 Readings
- •References
- •Il8 references
- •Indiana University Linguistics Club 1977
- •Chapter 6
- •122 References
- •126 References
- •128 Glossary
- •130 Glossary
- •13Z glossary
- •134 Glossary
- •Acknowledgements
Il8 references
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Giles fauconnier: Mental Spaces.
Cambridge University Press 1994
This is a very original approach to the ways in which we connect words to referents, emphasizing the assumption of shared knowledge and the role of pragmatic connections.
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talmy givon: Mind, Code and Context: Essays in Pragmatics. Lawrence Erlbaum 1989
This collection of essays covers many topics in pragmatics, including reference (Chapters 5 and 6), from a perspective that emphasizes function (what language is used for).
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JOHN LYONS: Semantics. Volume 1.
Cambridge University Press 1977
Chapter 7, on reference, sense, and denotation, presents a comprehensive background to the basic issues in the traditional semantic treatment of how words are used to refer.
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Geoffrey nunberg: The Pragmatics of Reference.
Indiana University Linguistics Club 1977
This dissertation uses the idea that words can be shown to have endless possible referents to argue for a pragmatic analysis in which word-meanings cannot be separated from 'knowledge of other kinds of conventions and social practices'.
Chapter 4
Presupposition and entailment
noel burton-roberts: The Limits to Debate. A Revised Theory of Semantic Presupposition. Cambridge University Press 1989
This book represents one of the few recent attempts to reconsider the basic concepts involved in presupposition.
choon-kyu oh and david dineen (eds.): Syntax and Semantics Volume n: Presupposition. Academic Press 1979
This collection of sixteen papers, plus an extensive bibliography, illustrates the types of controversies surrounding the nature of presupposition. Many are presented in very technical language.
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neil smith andDEiRDRE wilson: Modern Linguistics.
Penguin 1979
Chapters 7 and 8 of this text provide a detailed review of presupposition, entailment, and the role of ordered entailments.
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rob van der sandt: Context and Presupposition.
Croom Helm 1988
This book reconsiders the connection between presupposition, context, and the projection problem.
Chapter 5
Cooperation and implicature
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diane blakemore: Understanding Utterances. An
Introduction to Pragmatics. Blackwell 1992
This is an introduction to pragmatics in which Relevance is taken to be the central concept.
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Laurence horn: 'Toward a new taxonomy for pragmatic inference: Q-based and R-based implicature' in Deborah Schiffrin (ed.): Meaning, Form and Use in Context: Linguistic Applications. Georgetown University Press 1984
This paper proposes an alternative approach to analyzing how implicatures arise, using two instead of four maxims.
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paul grice: Studies in the Way of Words. Harvard University Press 1989
This volume includes the collected papers of the philosopher whose ideas are considered by many to be the foundation of contemporary pragmatics.
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Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistic Society 16,1990
There is a collection of sixteen papers, presented as a parasession within these published proceedings, on the legacy of Grice, covering a wide range of issues in the analysis of meaning.
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dan sperber and deirdre wilson: Relevance. Blackwell 1986
Presented as a study of human communication, this book takes the single maxim of Relevance as the key. Arguments and illustrations are presented to support the contention that 'communicated information comes with a guarantee of relevance'.