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Title Implicitness : from lexis to discourse / edited by Piotr Cap and Marta Dynel.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]

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Series Pragmatics & beyond new series (P & BNS) ; volume 276
Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 276.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Implicitness; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Chapter 1. Implicitness: Familiar terra incognita in pragmatics; 1. Explicating implicitness; 2. This collection: Aims and general structure; 3. Chapter-by-chapter overview; References; Chapter 2. What's a reading?; 1. Introduction; 2. Tests identifying interpretation status; 3. And-coherence inferences; 4. Scalar quantifiers; 5. So-called exclusive or interpretations; 6. Summary and conclusions; References; Chapter 3. Pronouns and implicature; 1. The expression theory and non-descriptive meaning.
2. Indexical meaning and concepts3. Indexical determinants; 4. Sortal and determiner components; 5. Pronouns; 6. The binding rules; 7. Implicature; 8. Neo-Gricean explanations of the binding rules; 9. Pronoun implicatures arising from their sortals; 10. Pronoun implicatures arising from their determiners; 11. Independent pronoun implicatures; 12. Interrogative and imperative implicatures; References; Chapter 4. Implicitness in the lexis: Lexical narrowing and neo-Gricean pragmatics; 1. Introduction; 2. Semantic underspecification; 3. Classical and neo-Gricean pragmatics.
4. Two types of lexical narrowing5. Pragmatic enrichment involving lexical narrowing: Explicature, the pragmatically enriched said, conversational impliciture or conversational implicature?; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 5. Zero subject anaphors and extralinguistically motivated subject pro-drop in Hungarian language use; 1. Introduction; 2. Anaphors, zero anaphors and extralinguistically motivated pro-drop phenomena; 3. Zero subject anaphors and extralinguistically motivated subject pro-drop in Hungarian language use; 4. Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References.
Chapter 6. Implicitness via overt untruthfulness: Grice on Quality-based figures of speech1. Introduction; 2. Maxim nonfulfilment as the source of implicature; 3. Quality and truthfulness; 4. Grice's view of metaphor, irony, hyperbole and meiosis and criticism thereof; 5. Quality-based figures as an alleged flaw in Grice's proposal of implicature; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 7. Lexical pragmatics and implicit communication: Lexical pragmatics and implicit communication; 1. Introduction; 2. Lexical narrowing; 3. The continuum of literal, loose and metaphorical uses.
4. When narrowing and broadening combine5. The scope of a theory of communication; 6. Concluding remarks; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 8. Indirect ritual offence: A study on elusive impoliteness; 1. Introduction; 2. Indirect ritual offence; 3. Data; 4. Analysis; 5. Conclusion; References; Chapter 9. Implicitness in the use of situation-bound utterances: Implicitness in the use of situation-bound utterances; 1. Introduction; 2. Characteristics of situation-bound utterances; 3. Tacit knowledge; 4. Context-dependence of implicitly conveyed information; 5. Can SBUs be underspecified?
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Subject Discourse analysis.
Discourse analysis.
Implication (Logic)
Implication (Logic)
Semantics.
Semantics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Cap, Piotr, editor.
Dynel, Marta, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Implicitness. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017] 9789027256812 (DLC) 2017013253
ISBN 9789027265487 (pdf)
9027265488
9789027256812 (hardback ; alkaline paper)