Thoughts and Utterances (eBook)

The Pragmatics of Explicit Communication

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2008
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Thoughts and Utterances - Robyn Carston
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Thoughts and Utterances is the first sustained investigation of two distinctions which are fundamental to all theories of utterance understanding: the semantics/pragmatics distinction and the distinction between what is explicitly communicated and what is implicitly communicated. Features the first sustained investigation of both the semantics/pragmatics distinction and the distinction between what is explicitly and implicitly communicated in speech.

Robyn Carston is Reader in Linguistics at University College London. She is co-editor of Relevance Theory: Applications and Implications (1998).

Introduction.

1. Pragmatics and Linguistic Underdeterminacy:.

Saying and Meaning.

The Underdeterminacy Thesis.

Eternal Sentences and Effability.

Metarepresentation, Relevance and Pragmatic Inference.

Underdeterminacy, Truth Conditions and the Semantics/PragmaticsDistinction.

Radical Underdeterminacy and the Background.

Underdeterminacy of Thought?.

Summary.

2. The Explicit/Implicit Distinction:.

Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction.

Grice: Saying/Implicating.

Sperber and Wilson: Relevance-theoretic Distinctions.

Travis and Recanati: Enriched 'What is Said'.

Bach: What is Said/Impliciture/Implicature.

Pragmatic Meaning: Enrichment or Implicature?.

Postscript: Hidden Indexicals or 'Free Enrichment?.

Conclusion: From Generative Semantics to Pro-activePragmatics.

3. The Pragmatics of 'And'-Conjunction:.

Preserving the Truth-functionality of 'And'.

A Relevance-based Pragmatics of Conjunction.

The Semantic Alternatives.

Cognitive Fundamentals: Causality and Explanation.

Relevance Relations and Units of Processing.

Processing Effort and Iconicity.

Residual Issues.

Conclusion: From Generalized Conversational Implicature.

4. The Pragmatics of Negation:.

Some Data and Some Distinctions.

Semantic Ambiguity Analyses.

Strong Pragmatic Analyses.

'Presupposition'-cancelling Negation and MetalinguisticNegation.

The Pragmatics of 'Presupposition'-Denial.

Conclusion: From Multiple Semantic Ambiguity to UnivocalSemantics and Pragmatic Enrichment.

5. The Pragmatics of On-line Concept Construction:.

Encoded Concepts and Communicated Concepts.

A Symmetrical Account of Narrowing and Broadening.

Metaphor: Loose Use and Ad Hoc Concepts.

Word Meaning and Concepts.

Conclusion: The Long Road from Linguistically Encoded Meaning tothe Thought(s) Explicitly Communicated.

Appendix 1: Relevance Theory Glossary.

Appendix 2: Gricean Conversational Principles.

References.

Index.

"This book serves to advance the status of pragmatics, as in
addition to presenting a theory free from serious errors, it is
also a good example of a methodologically sound book. I heavily
applaud this volume - which places students on the right path and
is also a rare example of scholarly eminence. I believe the author
must have had many sleepless nights to finish it - now she can take
her rest and enjoy the success and the praise she fully deserves."
Linguistics

"Challenges current philosophical approaches to pragmatics and
makes a substantial contribution to cognitive pragmatic theories
such as relevance theory." Moderna Sprak

"The book brings together a wealth of empirical observations and
new analyses and is impressive in breadth and depth. It is also one
of the most detailed and powerful expositions of relevance theory
and enriches the framework in considerable ways."
Lingua"This long-awaited treatise is the best case ever made
for relevance theory, and a most stimulating piece of work on the
semantics/pragmatics interface. I enjoyed it enormously."
François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod

"You don't have to be a relevance theorist to appreciate
Carston's challenge to influential Gricean views on the
interaction of pragmatics with semantics. This book, with its
breadth of coverage and depth of analysis, raises a good many
questions and offers many good answers." Kent Bach, San
Francisco State University

"Robyn Carston's combination of meticulous scholarship
with deep insight has led her to cast new light on the vexed
distinction between semantics and pragmatics, to provide new
analyses of a range of problems in linguistics and the philosophy
of language, and to illuminate the relation between language and
thought more generally. This elegantly written and original work is
the best book on pragmatics for a generation." Neil Smith,
University College London

"The author directly tackles the by now central issue of the
interface between semantics and pragmatics... and addresses such
important theoretical problems, within all of pragmatics, as the
distinction betwen explicit and implicit communication."
Pragmatics

"As is usual with excellent books, Carston's book leads us to
think further deeply and raises a good many questions... this book
takes a resolutely cognitive viewpoint, sheds a new light on the
semantics/pragmatics interaction and succeeds in elucidating the
roles of language and inferences in communication. i strongly
recommend this book not only to pragmatists, of course, but also to
everyone who is interested in human communication." Akiko
Yoshimura, Nara Women's University, Studies in English
Literature

Erscheint lt. Verlag 8.5.2008
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte Between • Book • Central • Claim • Cognitive Psychology • communicated • distinctions • encoded • explicitly • first sustained • fundamental • implicitly • investigation • Kognitive Psychologie • Philosophie • Philosophy • Philosophy of Language • pragmatics distinction • propositions • Psychologie • Psychology • Sprachphilosophie • Theories • two • underdetermines • utterance • utterances
ISBN-10 0-470-75455-9 / 0470754559
ISBN-13 978-0-470-75455-9 / 9780470754559
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