Thoughts and Utterances

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The Pragmatics of Explicit Communication

By Robyn Carston

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Thoughts and Utterances is Robyn Carston's first sustained investigation into two fundamental distinctions in theories of utterance understanding: the semantics/pragmatics distinction, and the distinction between what is explicitly communicated and what is implicitly communicated in speech.
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This book is ideal for students and scholars in linguistics, philosophy of language, and cognitive science, particularly those interested in pragmatics and utterance comprehension.

This volume brings together ideas on linguistic meaning and communication from the philosophy of language, cognitive psychology, and linguistic pragmatics.

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Thoughts and Utterances is the first sustained investigation of two distinctions which are fundamental to all theories of utterance understanding: the semantics/pragmatics distinction and the distinction between what is explicitly communicated and what is implicitly communicated.

Features the first sustained investigation of both the semantics/pragmatics distinction and the distinction between what is explicitly and implicitly communicated in speech.

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Praised for its methodological rigour and scholarly eminence, this book advances the status of pragmatics, challenges philosophical approaches, and contributes significantly to cognitive pragmatic theories such as relevance theory. Reviewers highlight its wealth of empirical observations, detailed exposition of relevance theory, and its impact on understanding the semantics/pragmatics interface.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780631214885

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 September 2002

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 100.0mm

Height: 250.0mm

Weight: 765g

Pages: 432

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About the Author

Robyn Carston is Reader in Linguistics at University College London. She is co-editor of Relevance Theory: Applications and Implications (1998).