Pragmatics.

Cover -- Pragmatics -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgements to the second edition -- Preface to the first edition -- Acknowledgements to the first edition -- Symbols and abbreviations -- Symbols -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. What is pragmatics? -- 1.1.1. A definition -- 1.1.2. A brief history of pragmatics -- 1.1.3. Two main schools of thought in pragmatics: Anglo-American versus European Continental -- 1.2. Why pragmatics? -- 1.2.1. Linguistic underdeterminacy -- 1.2.2. Simplification of semantics and syntax -- 1.3. Some basic notions in semantics and pragmatics -- 1.3.1. Sentence, utterance, and proposition -- 1.3.2. Context -- 1.3.3. Truth value, truth condition, and entailment -- 1.4. Organization of the book -- Key concepts -- Exercises and essay topics -- Further readings -- Part I -- Central topics in pragmatics -- 2. Implicature -- 2.1. Classical Gricean theory of conversational implicature -- 2.1.1. Grice's notion of non-natural meaning or meaningnn -- 2.1.2. Grice's co-operative principle and the maxims of conversation -- 2.1.3. Relationship between a speaker and the maxims -- 2.1.4. Conversational implicatureO versus conversational implicatureF -- 2.1.5. Generalized versus particularized conversational implicature -- 2.1.6. Properties of conversational implicature -- 2.2. Two neo-Gricean pragmatic theories of conversational implicature -- 2.2.1. The Hornian system -- 2.2.2. The Levinsonian system -- 2.3. Some current debates about conversational implicature -- 2.4. Embedded (conversational) implicature -- 2.4.1. What is an embedded implicature? -- 2.4.2. The main problem -- 2.4.3. Analyses -- 2.5. Conventional implicature -- 2.5.1. What is conventional implicature? -- 2.5.2. Properties of conventional implicature -- 2.6. Summary -- Key concepts.

Exercises and essay questions -- Further readings -- 3. Presupposition -- 3.1. Phenomena of presupposition -- 3.1.1. What is presupposition? -- 3.1.2. Some representative examples of presupposition -- 3.2. Properties of presupposition -- 3.2.1. Constancy under negation -- 3.2.2. Defeasibility -- 3.2.3. The projection problem -- 3.3. Analyses -- 3.3.1. Three main issues -- 3.3.2. The filtering-satisfaction analysis -- 3.3.3. The cancellation analysis -- 3.3.4. The accommodation analysis -- 3.4. Summary -- Key concepts -- Exercises and essay questions -- Further readings -- 4. Speech acts -- 4.1. Performatives versus constatives -- 4.1.1. The performative-constative dichotomy -- 4.1.2. The performative hypothesis -- 4.2. Austin's felicity conditions on performatives -- 4.3. Locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts -- 4.4. Searle's felicity conditions on speech acts -- 4.5. Searle's typology of speech acts -- 4.6. Indirect speech acts -- 4.6.1. What is an indirect speech act? -- 4.6.2. How is an indirect speech act analysed? -- 4.6.3. Why is an indirect speech act used? Some remarks on politeness and impoliteness -- 4.7. Speech acts and culture24 -- 4.7.1. Cross-cultural variation -- 4.7.2. Interlanguage variation -- 4.8. Summary -- Key concepts -- Exercises and essay topics -- Further readings -- 5. Deixis -- 5.1. Preliminaries -- 5.1.1. Deictic versus non-deictic expression -- 5.1.2. Gestural versus symbolic use of a deictic expression -- 5.1.3. Deictic centre and deictic projection -- 5.2. Basic categories of deixis -- 5.2.1. Person deixis -- 5.2.2. Time deixis -- 5.2.3. Space deixis -- 5.3. Other categories of deixis -- 5.3.1. Social deixis -- 5.3.2. Discourse deixis -- 5.3.3. Emotional deixis -- 5.4. Summary -- Key concepts -- Exercises and essay questions -- Further readings -- 6. Reference -- 6.1. What is reference?.

6.2. Referring expressions -- 6.2.1. Proper names -- 6.2.2. Definite descriptions -- 6.2.3. Indefinite descriptions -- 6.2.4. Quantificational NPs -- 6.2.5. Possessive NPs -- 6.2.6. Generic NPs -- 6.2.7. Demonstratives -- 6.2.8. Pronouns -- 6.2.9. Common nouns/bare NPs -- 6.3. Anaphoric uses of pronouns -- 6.3.1. Referential pronouns -- 6.3.2. Bound-variable pronouns -- 6.3.3. E-type pronouns -- 6.3.4. Pronouns of 'laziness' -- 6.3.5. Bridging-cross reference anaphora -- 6.4. More on proper names and definite descriptions: some classical philosophical distinctions and analyses of reference -- 6.4.1. Proper names -- 6.4.2. Definite descriptions -- 6.5. Deferred or transferred reference -- 6.5.1. The phenomenon -- 6.5.2. Analyses -- 6.6. Summary -- Key concepts -- Exercises and essay questions -- Further readings -- Part II -- Pragmatics and its interfaces -- 7. Pragmatics and cognition: relevance theory -- 7.1. Relevance -- 7.1.1. The cognitive principle of relevance -- 7.1.2. The communicative principle of relevance -- 7.2. Explicature, r-implicature, and conceptual versus procedural meaning -- 7.2.1. Grice: what is said versus what is conversationally implicated -- 7.2.2. Explicature -- 7.2.3. R-implicature -- 7.2.4. Conceptual versus procedural meaning -- 7.3. From Fodorian 'central process' to submodule of 'theory of mind' -- 7.3.1. Fodorian theory of cognitive modularity -- 7.3.2. Sperber and Wilson's earlier position: pragmatics as Fodorian 'central process' -- 7.3.3. Sperber and Wilson's current position: pragmatics as submodule of 'theory of mind' -- 7.4. Relevance theory and the classical/neo-Gricean pragmatic theory compared -- 7.5. Summary -- Key concepts -- Exercises and essay questions -- Further readings -- 8. Pragmatics and semantics -- 8.1. Reductionism versus complementarism -- 8.2. Drawing the semantics-pragmatics distinction.

8.2.1. Truth-conditional versus non-truth-conditional meaning -- 8.2.2. Conventional versus non-conventional meaning -- 8.2.3. Context independence versus context dependence -- 8.3. Pragmatic intrusion into what is said and the semantics-pragmatics interface -- 8.3.1. Grice: what is said versus what is conversationally implicated revisited -- 8.3.2. Contextualism versus semantic minimalism in the philosophy of language -- 8.3.3. Four (pragmatic) analyses: explicature, pragmatically enriched said, impliciture, and conversational implicature -- 8.4. Can explicature, the pragmatically enriched said, and impliciture be distinguished from conversational implicature? -- 8.5. The five analyses compared -- 8.5.1. Grice -- 8.5.2. Relevance theorists -- 8.5.3. Recanati -- 8.5.4. Bach -- 8.5.5. Levinson -- 8.6. Summary -- Key concepts -- Exercises and essay questions -- Further readings -- 9. Pragmatics and syntax -- 9.1. Chomsky's views about language and linguistics -- 9.2. Chomsky's binding theory -- 9.3. Problems for Chomsky's binding theory -- 9.3.1. Binding condition A -- 9.3.2. Binding condition B -- 9.3.3. Complementarity between anaphors and pronominals -- 9.3.4. Binding condition C -- 9.3.5. Elimination of binding conditions? -- 9.4. A revised neo-Gricean pragmatic theory of anaphora -- 9.4.1. The general pattern of anaphora -- 9.4.2. A revised neo-Gricean pragmatic apparatus for anaphora -- 9.4.3. The binding patterns -- 9.4.4. Beyond the binding patterns -- 9.4.5. Unexpectedness: emphaticness or contrastiveness, logophoricity, and de se attitude or belief ascription -- 9.5. Theoretical implications -- 9.6. Summary -- Key concepts -- Exercises and essay questions -- Further readings -- Glossary -- References -- Suggested solutions to exercises -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8.

Chapter 9 -- Index of languages, language families, and language areas -- Index of names -- Index of subjects.

Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics has been fully revised and updated. It includes a brand new chapter on reference, a major topic in both linguistics and the philosophy of language, as well as new material covering subjects including conversational implicature, emotional deixis, and contextualism versus semantic minimalism.

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