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Index
Cover
Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Preface
Organization of the Book
Acknowledgments
1 Defining Pragmatics
1.1 Pragmatics and Natural Language
1.2 The Boundary Between Semantics and Pragmatics
1.3 Summary
2 Gricean Implicature
2.1 The Cooperative Principle
2.2 Types of Implicature
2.3 Testing for Implicature
2.4 The Gricean Model of Meaning
2.5 Summary
3 Later Approaches to Implicature
3.1 Neo-Gricean Theory
3.2 Relevance Theory
3.3 Comparing Neo-Gricean Theory and Relevance Theory
3.4 Summary
4 Reference
4.1 Referring Expressions
4.2 Deixis
4.3 Definiteness and Indefiniteness
4.4 Anaphora
4.5 Referential and Attributive Uses of Definite Descriptions
4.6 Summary
5 Presupposition
5.1 Presupposition, Negation, and Entailment
5.2 Presupposition Triggers
5.3 The Projection Problem
5.4 Defeasibility
5.5 Presupposition as Common Ground
5.6 Accommodation
5.7 Summary
6 Speech Acts
6.1 Performative Utterances
6.2 Felicity Conditions
6.3 Locutionary Acts
6.4 Direct and Indirect Speech Acts
6.5 Face and Politeness
6.6 Joint Acts
6.7 Summary
7 Information Structure
7.1 Topic and Focus
7.2 Open Propositions
7.3 Discourse-Status and Hearer-Status
7.4 Information Structure and Constituent Order
7.5 Functional Compositionality
7.6 Summary
8 Inferential Relations
8.1 Inferential Relations at the Constituent Level
8.2 Inferential Relations at the Propositional Level
8.3 Summary
9 Dynamic Semantics and the Representation of Discourse
9.1 Theoretical Background
9.2 Static vs. Dynamic Approaches to Meaning
9.3 Discourse Representation Theory
9.4 The scope of DRT and the Domain of Pragmatics
9.5 Summary
10 Conclusion
10.1 The Semantics/Pragmatics Boundary Revisited
10.2 Pragmatics in the Real World
10.3 Pragmatics and the Future of Linguistic Theory
10.4 Summary
References
Sources for Examples
Index
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