ISBN:
9781849509343
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9781849509343
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9789004253179
Language:
English
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Chinese
Pages:
XXI, 243 S.
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Ill.
Edition:
1. ed.
Series Statement:
Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface 22
Series Statement:
Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface Ser. v.22
Parallel Title:
Print version A Theory of Conventional Implicature and Pragmatic Markers in Chinese
DDC:
306.440951
Keywords:
Chinese language ; Discourse analysis
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Chinese language ; Semantics
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Chinesisch
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Implikatur
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Pragmatik
Abstract:
Conventional implicature is itself a highly controversial term, understood very differently by various brands of contemporary pragmatic theory. This book sets out to advance a Gricean theoretical framework of conventional implicature. It also intends to offer an analysis of pragmatic markers in Chinese
Description / Table of Contents:
A Theory of Conventional Implicature and Pragmatic Markers in Chinese; Copyright page; Editorial Board; Dedication; Contents; Preface quotes; Preface; Acknowledgements; Author's Biography; List of Figures; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.1. Background of Research; 1.2. Objectives; 1.3. Research Questions and Organization; Chapter 2. Grice's Theory of Meaning; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Natural Versus Non-natural Meaning; 2.3. Two Taxonomies of Speaker Meaning; 2.3.1 What is Said Versus What is Implicated; 2.3.2 Two Taxonomies of Speaker Meaning: Which is More Gricean?; 2.4. Speaker-Centrality
Description / Table of Contents:
2.4.1 Intention and Speaker-Centrality2.4.2 Cooperative Principle and Speaker-Central; 2.4.3 Thought and Speaker-Centrality; 2.4.4 Taking Stock; 2.5. Conclusion; Chapter 3. Conventional Implicature: Some Preliminaries; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. From Locke to Frege, and to Grice; 3.2.1 The Lockean Notion of 'the Postures of the Mind'; 3.2.2 The Fregean Notion of 'Colouring'; 3.2.3 The Gricean Notion of Conventional Implicature; 3.3. Rejections; 3.3.1 Bach (1999a); 3.3.2 Relevance Theorists; 3.4. Potts (2005): A Misnomer; 3.5. Conclusion; Chapter 4. Conventional Implicature: Towards a Theory
Description / Table of Contents:
4.1. Introduction4.2. Subjectivity; 4.2.1 Subjectivity in Philosophy; 4.2.2 Subjectivity in Linguistics; 4.2.3 Taking Stock; 4.3. Defining Conventional Implicature; 4.3.1 An Initial Definition; 4.3.2 Properties of Conventional Implicature; 4.4. Conclusion; Chapter 5. Pragmatic Markers in Chinese; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Defining Pragmatic Markers; 5.2.1 Non-Truth-Conditionality; 5.2.2 Propositional Scope; 5.2.3 Syntactic Dispensability; 5.2.4 Semantic Dependency; 5.3. Discourse Markers that are not Pragmatic Markers; 5.3.1 Utterance Modifiers; 5.3.2 Domain Adverbials
Description / Table of Contents:
5.3.3 Temporal Connectives and Ordinals5.3.4 Second-Person Forms; 5.3.5 Other Categories; 5.4. Pragmatic Markers in Chinese: A Typology; 5.4.1 Conceptual Pragmatic Markers; 5.4.2 Non-Conceptual Pragmatic Markers; 5.5. Conclusion; Chapter 6. Major Approaches to Pragmatic Markers; 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. The Discourse Approach: Pragmatic Markers as Cohesive Devices; 6.2.1 General Underlying Assumptions; 6.2.2 Halliday and Hasan (1976); 6.2.3 Schiffrin (1987); 6.3. The Relevance-Theoretic Approach: Pragmatic Markers as Constraints on Utterance Interpretation; 6.3.1 A Sketch of Relevance Theory
Description / Table of Contents:
6.3.2 Blakemore (1987, 1992, 2002): Conceptual/Procedural Distinction6.4. Fraser (1996, 1999, 2005a): A Semantic Approach; 6.5. Conclusion; Chapter 7. Pragmatic Markers and Conventional Implicature; 7.1. Introduction; 7.2. Conventional Implicature Potential; 7.3. Chinese Pragmatic Markers: An Analysis; 7.3.1 Conceptual Pragmatic Markers; 7.3.2 Non-Conceptual Pragmatic Markers; 7.4. Conclusion; Chapter 8. Conclusions; References; Conventions, Notations and Abbreviations; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
