{"product_id":"understanding-utterances-9780631158677","title":"Understanding Utterances","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A clearly written textbook. Punctuated with straightforward exercises and a useful recommended reading list.\" \u003ci\u003eJournal of Pragmatics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface. \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","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403387707735,"sku":"9780631158677","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631158677.jpg?v=1730483313","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/understanding-utterances-9780631158677","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}