Explicit communication
Subtitle: Robyn Carston's pragmatics
By: edited by Belén Soria and Esther Romero
Series: Palgrave studies in pragmatics, language and cognition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndsmille, Basingstoke; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780230545472
Subjects: Communication; Philosophy; Focus (Linguistics); Pragmatics; Semantics
Description: "This collection of essays brings about a current interdisciplinary debate on explicit communication. With Robyn Carston's pragmatics at the core of the discussion, special attention is drawn to linguistic underdeterminacy, the explicit/implicit divide and also to the construction or recruitment of concepts in on-line utterance comprehension, which is a particularly contentious area within the broader theme of the limits of explicitness in linguistic communication. Carston contributes with her current views and responds to some of the issues and criticisms raised"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: explicit communication and relevance theory pragmatics  -- Esther Romero and Belén Soria; title: Pragmatics and logical form  -- Franc̥ois Recanati; title: On relevance theory's atomistic commitments  -- Agustín Vicente and Fernando Martínez-Manrique; title: The role of pragmatic inferencing in compositional semantics  -- Begoña Vicente Cruz; title: Linguistic meaning and propositional content  -- Manuel García-Carpintero; title: Meaning, context, and how language can surprise us  -- Barry C. Smith; title: Explicature, what is said and Gricean factorszation criteria  -- José E.Chaves; title: Impliciture vs explicature: what's the difference?  -- Kent Bach; title: Cancellation and intention  -- Noel Burton-Roberts; title: Metaphor comprehension: some questions for current accounts in relevance theory  -- Adrian Pilkington; title: Ad hoc concepts and metaphor  -- Mauel Hernández Iglesias; title: Phrasal pragmatics in Robyns Carston Programme  -- Esther Romero and Belén Soria; title: Uttering sentences made-up of words and gestures  -- Philippe De Brabanter; title: Explicit communication and 'free' pragmatic enrichment -- Robyn Carston.