Pragmatics

by Huang, Yan

• ISBN13: 9780199298372
• ISBN10: 0199298378
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This title includes the following features: Clear and comprehensive; Covers the latest research developments; Relates work in linguistics andphilosophy of language; Includes examples from English and a wide range oflanguages; Includes exercises and answers, a glossary, and guides to furtherreading

Author Biography

Yan Huang is Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Reading. He has a PhD from the University of Cambridge and a DPhil from the University of Oxford, and has taught linguistics at both universities. His published work includes The Syntax and Pragmatics of Anaphora (CUP, 1994) and Anaphora: A Cross-Linguistic Study (OUP, 2000). He has also published a number of articles and reviews in leading international journals of linguistics.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
Symbols and abbreviations	xvii
Introduction	1	(20)
What is pragmatics?	1	(4)
A definition	1	(1)
A brief history of pragmatics	2	(2)
Two main schools of thought in pragmatics: Anglo-American versus European Continental	4	(1)
Why pragmatics?	5	(5)
Linguistic underdeterminacy	5	(2)
Simplification of semantics and syntax	7	(3)
Some basic notions in semantics and pragmatics	10	(7)
Sentence, utterance, proposition	10	(3)
Context	13	(1)
Truth value, truth condition, entailment	14	(3)
Organization of the book	17	(4)
Key concepts	17	(1)
Exercises and essay questions	18	(1)
Further readings	19	(2)
Part I Central topics in pragmatics	21	(158)
Implicature	23	(41)
Classical Gricean theory of conversational implicature	24	(12)
The co-operative principle and the maxims of conversation	25	(1)
Relationship between the speaker and the maxims	26	(1)
Conversational implicatureo versus conversational implicatureF	27	(4)
Generalized versus particularized conversational implicature	31	(1)
Properties of conversational implicature	32	(4)
Two neo-Gricean pragmatic theories of conversational implicature	36	(18)
The Hornian system	37	(3)
The Levinsonian system	40	(14)
Conventional implicature	54	(4)
What is conventional implicature?	54	(1)
Properties of conventional implicature	55	(3)
Summary	58	(6)
Key concepts	58	(1)
Exercises and essay questions	59	(4)
Further readings	63	(1)
Presupposition	64	(29)
What is presupposition?	65	(2)
Properties of presupposition	67	(8)
Constancy under negation	67	(1)
Defeasibility	68	(5)
The projection problem	73	(2)
Analyses	75	(15)
The filtering-satisfaction analysis	76	(5)
The cancellation analysis	81	(4)
The accommodation analysis	85	(5)
Summary	90	(3)
Key concepts	90	(1)
Exercises and essay questions	91	(1)
Further readings	92	(1)
Speech acts	93	(39)
Performatives versus constatives	94	(4)
The performative/constative dichotomy	94	(3)
The performative hypothesis	97	(1)
Austin's felicity conditions on performatives	98	(2)
Locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary speech acts	100	(4)
Searle's felicity conditions on speech acts	104	(2)
Searle's typology of speech acts	106	(3)
Indirect speech acts	109	(10)
What is an indirect speech act?	109	(3)
How is an indirect speech act analysed?	112	(3)
Why is an indirect speech act used? Some remarks on politeness	115	(4)
Speech acts and culture	119	(8)
Cross-cultural variation	119	(6)
Interlanguage variation	125	(2)
Summary	127	(5)
Key concepts	127	(1)
Exercises and essay questions	128	(3)
Further readings	131	(1)
Deixis	132	(47)
Preliminaries	133	(3)
Deictic versus non-deictic expression	133	(1)
Gestural versus symbolic use of a deictic expression	134	(1)
Deictic centre and deictic projection	135	(1)
Basic categories of deixis	136	(27)
Person deixis	136	(8)
Time deixis	144	(5)
Space deixis	149	(14)
Other categories of deixis	163	(11)
Social deixis	163	(9)
Discourse deixis	172	(2)
Summary	174	(5)
Key concepts	174	(1)
Exercises and essay questions	175	(2)
Further readings	177	(2)
Part II Pragmatics and its interfaces	179	(100)
Pragmatics and cognition: relevance theory	181	(28)
Relevance	182	(5)
The cognitive principle of relevance	182	(3)
The communicative principle of relevance	185	(2)
Explicature, implicature, and conceptual versus procedural meaning	187	(11)
Grice: what is said versus what is implicated	187	(1)
Explicature	188	(6)
Implicature	194	(3)
Conceptual versus procedural meaning	197	(1)
From Fodorian `central process' to submodule of `theory of mind'	198	(3)
Fodorian theory of cognitive modularity	198	(2)
Sperber and Wilson's earlier position: pragmatics as Fodorian `central process'	200	(1)
Sperber and Wilson's current position: pragmatics as submodule of `theory of mind'	200	(1)
Relevance theory compared with classical/neo-Gricean theory	201	(4)
Summary	205	(4)
Key concepts	206	(1)
Exercises and essay questions	207	(1)
Further readings	208	(1)
Pragmatics and semantics	209	(36)
Reductionism versus complementarism	210	(1)
Drawing the semantics--pragmatics distinction	211	(5)
Truth-conditional versus non-truth-conditional meaning	212	(1)
Conventional versus non-conventional meaning	213	(1)
Context independence versus context dependence	214	(2)
Pragmatic intrusion into what is said and the semantics--pragmatics interface	216	(25)
Grice: what is said versus what is implicated revisited	216	(3)
Relevance theorists: explicature	219	(1)
Recanati: the pragmatically enriched said	220	(3)
Bach: conversational impliciture	223	(2)
Can explicature/the pragmatically enriched said/impliciture be distinguished from implicature?	225	(6)
Levinson: conversational implicature	231	(6)
The five analyses compared	237	(4)
Summary	241	(4)
Key concepts	242	(1)
Exercises and essay questions	243	(1)
Further readings	244	(1)
Pragmatics and syntax	245	(34)
Chomsky's views about language and linguistics	247	(1)
Chomsky's binding theory	247	(3)
Problems for Chomsky's binding theory	250	(7)
Binding condition A	250	(2)
Binding condition B	252	(1)
Complementarity between anaphors and pronominals	253	(3)
Binding condition C	256	(1)
A revised neo-Gricean pragmatic theory of anaphora	257	(13)
The general pattern of anaphora	258	(1)
A revised neo-Gricean pragmatic apparatus for anaphora	259	(4)
The binding patterns	263	(2)
Beyond the binding patterns	265	(1)
Logophoricity and emphaticness/contrastiveness	266	(4)
Theoretical implications	270	(4)
Summary	274	(5)
Key concepts	274	(1)
Exercises and essay questions	275	(2)
Further readings	277	(2)
Glossary	279	(6)
References	285	(28)
Suggested solutions to exercises	313	(14)
Index of names	327	(7)
Index of languages	334	(6)
Index of subjects	340