{"product_id":"understanding-utterances-isbn-9780631158677","title":"Understanding Utterances","description":"This textbook provides an introduction to pragmatics from the point of view of Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory. The first part lays down the foundations of a relevance theoretic approach to utterance understanding, which is then applied to the analysis of a range of phenomena which are central to pragmatics.  Preface. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Fundamentals:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Communication and the Context.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1. What do Speakers Communicate?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2. Understanding and Inference.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3. The Context.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecommended Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Relevance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1. Standards in Communication.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2. The Principle of Relevance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecommended Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Pragmatics, Linguistics and Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1. Carving up Meaning: Semantics and Pragmatists.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2. Promises and Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecommended Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Explicature:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Explicating and Implicating.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecommended Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Proposition Expressed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1. Assigning Reference.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2. Enrichment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3. Explicatures and Coherence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecommended Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Higher-Level Explicatures: Attitudes and Speech Acts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1. Speech Acts and Pragmatics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2. Performatives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3. Saying, Telling and Asking.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.4. Interpretive Use.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.5. Non-Declarative Utterances: Imperatives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.6. Non-Declarative Utterances: Interrogatives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecommended Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Implicature:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Types of Implicature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1. Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2. Implicated Premises and Implicated Conclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3. Strong and Weak Implicatures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecommended Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Constraints on Implicatures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1. Connections in Discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2. Discourse Connectives as Constraints on Implicatures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3. The Classification of Discourse Connectives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4. Parallel Implications.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.5. Non-Truth-Conditional Meaning: Semantics and Pragmatics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecommended Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Implicatures and Style.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1. Poetic Effects.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2. Metaphor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3. Irony.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4. Style.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecommended Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e \"A clearly written textbook. Punctuated with straightforward exercises and a useful recommended reading list.\" \u003ci\u003eJournal of Pragmatics\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eDiane Blakemore\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in Linguistics at Southampton University. Her book on\u003ci\u003e Semantic Constraints on Relevance\u003c\/i\u003e was published by Blackwell in 1987. This textbook provides an introduction to pragmatics from the point of view of Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory. The first part lays down the foundations of a relevance theoretic approach to utterance understanding, which is then applied to the analysis of a range of phenomena which are central to pragmatics.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990434070757,"sku":"NP9780631158677","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631158677.jpg?v=1761787810","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/understanding-utterances-isbn-9780631158677","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}