Theory of Conventional Implicature and Pragmatic Markers in Chinese : Theory of Conventional Implicature and Pragmatic Markers in Chinese.
Material type: TextSeries: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface SerPublisher: Leiden : BRILL, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (258 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789004253179Subject(s): Chinese language -- Discourse analysis | Chinese language -- SemanticsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Theory of Conventional Implicature and Pragmatic Markers in Chinese : Theory of Conventional Implicature and Pragmatic Markers in ChineseDDC classification: 495.10141 LOC classification: PL1291 -- .F46 2010ebOnline resources: Click to ViewIntro -- A Theory of Conventional Implicature and Pragmatic Markers in Chinese -- Copyright page -- Editorial Board -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface quotes -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Author's Biography -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Background of Research -- 1.2. Objectives -- 1.3. Research Questions and Organization -- Chapter 2. Grice's Theory of Meaning -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Natural Versus Non-natural Meaning -- 2.3. Two Taxonomies of Speaker Meaning -- 2.3.1 What is Said Versus What is Implicated -- 2.3.2 Two Taxonomies of Speaker Meaning: Which is More Gricean? -- 2.4. Speaker-Centrality -- 2.4.1 Intention and Speaker-Centrality -- 2.4.2 Cooperative Principle and Speaker-Central -- 2.4.3 Thought and Speaker-Centrality -- 2.4.4 Taking Stock -- 2.5. Conclusion -- Chapter 3. Conventional Implicature: Some Preliminaries -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. From Locke to Frege, and to Grice -- 3.2.1 The Lockean Notion of 'the Postures of the Mind' -- 3.2.2 The Fregean Notion of 'Colouring' -- 3.2.3 The Gricean Notion of Conventional Implicature -- 3.3. Rejections -- 3.3.1 Bach (1999a) -- 3.3.2 Relevance Theorists -- 3.4. Potts (2005): A Misnomer -- 3.5. Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Conventional Implicature: Towards a Theory -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Subjectivity -- 4.2.1 Subjectivity in Philosophy -- 4.2.2 Subjectivity in Linguistics -- 4.2.3 Taking Stock -- 4.3. Defining Conventional Implicature -- 4.3.1 An Initial Definition -- 4.3.2 Properties of Conventional Implicature -- 4.4. Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Pragmatic Markers in Chinese -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Defining Pragmatic Markers -- 5.2.1 Non-Truth-Conditionality -- 5.2.2 Propositional Scope -- 5.2.3 Syntactic Dispensability -- 5.2.4 Semantic Dependency -- 5.3. Discourse Markers that are not Pragmatic Markers -- 5.3.1 Utterance Modifiers.
5.3.2 Domain Adverbials -- 5.3.3 Temporal Connectives and Ordinals -- 5.3.4 Second-Person Forms -- 5.3.5 Other Categories -- 5.4. Pragmatic Markers in Chinese: A Typology -- 5.4.1 Conceptual Pragmatic Markers -- 5.4.2 Non-Conceptual Pragmatic Markers -- 5.5. Conclusion -- Chapter 6. Major Approaches to Pragmatic Markers -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. The Discourse Approach: Pragmatic Markers as Cohesive Devices -- 6.2.1 General Underlying Assumptions -- 6.2.2 Halliday and Hasan (1976) -- 6.2.3 Schiffrin (1987) -- 6.3. The Relevance-Theoretic Approach: Pragmatic Markers as Constraints on Utterance Interpretation -- 6.3.1 A Sketch of Relevance Theory -- 6.3.2 Blakemore (1987, 1992, 2002): Conceptual/Procedural Distinction -- 6.4. Fraser (1996, 1999, 2005a): A Semantic Approach -- 6.5. Conclusion -- Chapter 7. Pragmatic Markers and Conventional Implicature -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Conventional Implicature Potential -- 7.3. Chinese Pragmatic Markers: An Analysis -- 7.3.1 Conceptual Pragmatic Markers -- 7.3.2 Non-Conceptual Pragmatic Markers -- 7.4. Conclusion -- Chapter 8. Conclusions -- References -- Conventions, Notations and Abbreviations -- Index.
Conventional implicature is itself a highly controversial term, understood very differently by various brands of contemporary pragmatic theory. This book sets out to advance a Gricean theoretical framework of conventional implicature. It also intends to offer an analysis of pragmatic markers in Chinese.
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