Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Foreword and Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Explicit Communication and Relevance Theory Pragmatics; E.Romero & B.Soria Pragmatics and Logical Form; F.Recanati On Relevance Theory's Atomistic Commitments; A.Vicente & F.Mart nez-Manrique The Role of Pragmatic Inferencing in Compositional Semantics; B.Vicente Linguistic Meaning and Propositional Content; M.Garc a-Carpintero What we Mean, What we Think we Mean, and How Language Surprises us; B.C.Smith Explicature, What is Said and Gricean Factorization Criteria; J.E.Chaves Impliciture vs Explicature: What's the Difference?; K.Bach Cancellation and Intention; N.Burton-Roberts Metaphor Comprehension: Some Questions for Current Accounts in Relevance Theory; A.Pilkington Ad Hoc Concepts and Metaphor; M.Hern ndez Iglesias Phrasal Pragmatics in Robyn Carston's Programme; E.Romero & B.Soria Uttering Sentences Made up of Words and Gestures; P.De Brabanter Explicit Communication and Free Pragmatic Enrichment; R.Carston Name Index Subject Index
Synopsis
This collection brings about a current interdisciplinary debate on explicit communication. With Robyn Carston's pragmatics at the core of the discussion, special attention is drawn to linguistic under-determinacy, the explicit/implicit divide and also to the construction or recruitment of concepts in on-line utterance comprehension.