Understanding Utterances

Understanding Utterances
Author: Diane Blakemore
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1992-07-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780631158677

This textbook provides an introduction to pragmatics from the point of view of Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory. The first part lays down the foundations of a relevance theoretic approach to utterance understanding, which is then applied to the analysis of a range of phenomena which are central to pragmatics.

Thoughts and Utterances

Thoughts and Utterances
Author: Robyn Carston
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0470754559

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.

Psycholinguistics

Psycholinguistics
Author: Michael Garman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 538
Release: 1990-09-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521276412

An introduction to psycholinguistics - the study of human language processing - which deals with the central area of the linguistically mature, monolingual adult's language abilities.

Conversational Repair and Human Understanding

Conversational Repair and Human Understanding
Author: Makoto Hayashi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2013-01-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1139619284

Humans are imperfect, and problems of speaking, hearing and understanding are pervasive in ordinary interaction. This book examines the way we 'repair' and correct such problems as they arise in conversation and other forms of human interaction. The first book-length study of this topic, it brings together a team of scholars from the fields of anthropology, communication, linguistics and sociology to explore how speakers address problems in their own talk and that of others, and how the practices of repair are interwoven with non-verbal aspects of communication such as gaze and gesture, across a variety of languages. Specific chapters highlight intersections between repair and epistemics, repair and turn construction, and repair and action formation. Aimed at researchers and students in sociolinguistics, speech communication, conversation analysis and the broader human and social sciences to which they contribute - anthropology, linguistics, psychology and sociology - this book provides a state-of-the-art review of conversational repair, while charting new directions for future study.

Critical Pragmatics

Critical Pragmatics
Author: Kepa Korta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2011-07-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139498509

Critical Pragmatics develops three ideas: language is a way of doing things with words; meanings of phrases and contents of utterances derive ultimately from human intentions; and language combines with other factors to allow humans to achieve communicative goals. In this book, Kepa Korta and John Perry explain why critical pragmatics provides a coherent picture of how parts of language study fit together within the broader picture of human thought and action. They focus on issues about singular reference, that is, talk about particular things, places or people, which have played a central role in the philosophy of language for more than a century. They argue that attention to the 'reflexive' or 'utterance-bound' contents of utterances sheds new light on these old problems. Their important study proposes a new approach to pragmatics and should be of wide interest to philosophers of language and linguists.

Understanding Pragmatics

Understanding Pragmatics
Author: Gunter Senft
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2014-01-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1444180312

Understanding Pragmatics takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide an accessible introduction to linguistic pragmatics. This book discusses how the meaning of utterances can only be understood in relation to overall cultural, social and interpersonal contexts, as well as to culture specific conventions and the speech events in which they are embedded. From a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective, this book: debates the core issues of pragmatics such as speech act theory, conversational implicature, deixis, gesture, interaction strategies, ritual communication, phatic communion, linguistic relativity, ethnography of speaking, ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, languages and social classes, and linguistic ideologies incorporates examples from a broad variety of different languages and cultures takes an innovative and transdisciplinary view of the field showing linguistic pragmatics has its predecessor in other disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, ethology, ethnology, sociology and the political sciences. Written by an experienced teacher and researcher, this introductory textbook is essential reading for all students studying pragmatics.

Interpretation and Understanding

Interpretation and Understanding
Author: Marcelo Dascal
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 736
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027226040

Our species has been searching for meaning throughout its evolutionary development. For us to understand one another, we must embark on a complex interpretative process. The aim of this text is to provide a theory of understanding and interpretation to clarify this communicative process.

Meaning and Force

Meaning and Force
Author: Frangois Recanati
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 298
Release: 1987
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521303538

Imagination and Convention

Imagination and Convention
Author: Ernest LePore
Publisher:
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2015
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0198717180

How do hearers manage to understand speakers? And how do speakers manage to shape hearers' understanding? Lepore and Stone show that standard views about the workings of semantics and pragmatics are unsatisfactory. They advance an alternative view which better captures what is going on in linguistic communication.