Pragmatics [Paperback]

This volume addresses issues that have arisen in post-Gricean pragmatic theory. Among the specific topics covered are scalar implicatures, lexical semantics and pragmatics, indexicality, procedural meaning, the semantics and pragmatics of negation. The volume includes both defences and critiques of Relevance Theory and of Neo-Gricean Pragmatics.Notes on Contributors Introduction; N.Burton-Roberts On a Pragmatic Explanation of Negative Polarity Licensing; J.D.Atlas Regressions in Pragmatics (and Semantics); K.Bach Constraints, Concepts and Procedural Encoding; D.Blakemore Optimality Theoretic Pragmatics and the Explicature/Implicature Distinction; R.Blutner Varieties of Semantics and Encoding: Negation, Narrowing/Loosening and Numericals; N.Burton-Roberts Relevance Theory and Shared Content; H.Cappelen & E.Lepore Concepts and Word Meaning in Relevance Theory; M.Groefsema Neo-Gricean Pragmatics: A Manichaean Manifesto; L.Horn The Why and How of Experimental Pragmatics: The Case of 'Scalar Inferences'; I.Noveck & D.Sperber Indexicality, Context, and Pretence: A Speech-Act Theoretic Account; F.Recanati A Unitary Approach to Lexical Pragmatics: Relevance, Inference and Ad Hoc Concepts; D.Wilson & R.Carston IndexJAY DAVID ATLAS is Peter W. Stanley Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at Pomona College, USAKENT BACH is Professor of Philosophy, San Francisco State University, USADIANE BLAKEMORE is Professor of Linguistics and Associate Head (Research) in the School of Languages, European Studies Research Institute, Salford University, UKREINHARD BLUTNER is Privatdozent at the Humboldt-University in Berlin, GermanyHERMAN CAPPELEN is Lecturer in Philosophy University of Oxford, UKMARJOLEIN GROEFSEMA is Subject Leader for English Language and Communication, School of Humanities, University of Hertfordshire, UKLAURENCE R. HORN is Professor of Linguistics and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Yale University, USAERNEST LEPORE is Director for the Rutgers UniversitlS