Sandrine Zufferey, Jacques Moeschler, Anne ReboulCambridge University Press, 6/13/2019EAN 9781107125650, ISBN10: 1107125650Hardcover, 264 pages, 22.4 x 21.1 x 1.8 cmLanguage: EnglishAn accessible and thorough introduction to implicatures, a key topic in all frameworks of pragmatics. Starting with a definition of the various types of implicatures in Gricean, neo-Gricean and post-Gricean pragmatics, the book covers many important questions for current pragmatic theories, namely: the distinction between explicit and implicit forms of pragmatic enrichment, the criteria for drawing a line between semantic and pragmatic meaning, the relations between the structure of language (syntax) and its use (pragmatics), the social and cognitive factors underlying the use of implicatures by native speakers, and the factors influencing their acquisition for children and second language learners. Written in non-technical language, Implicatures will appeal to students and teachers in linguistics, applied linguistics, psychology and sociology, who are interested in how language is used for communication, and how children and learners develop pragmatic skills.Part I. Theoretical Foundations1. Ordinary language philosophy and the birth of pragmatics2. Linguistic theory and pragmatics3. Relevance theory and the broadening of pragmatics to explicit meaningPart II. Types of Implicatures4. Particularized Conversational Implicatureswhy there are conversational implicatures5. Conventional implicature and presuppositionformal semantics and pragmatics6. Generalized conversational implicaturesGricean, neo-Gricean and post-Gricean pragmaticsPart III. Empirical Evidence7. Implicatures and language processing8. The acquisition of implicatures in the course of first language development9. Implicatures and second language acquisitionConclusion.
