Product Description
by N. Burton-Roberts (Editor)
This volume addresses issues that have arisen in post-Gricean pragmatic theory. Among the specific topics covered are scalar implicatures, lexical semantics and pragmatics, indexicality, procedural meaning, the semantics and pragmatics of negation. The volume includes both defences and critiques of Relevance Theory and of Neo-Gricean Pragmatics.
Author Biography
JAY DAVID ATLAS is Peter W. Stanley Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at Pomona College, USA KENT BACH is Professor of Philosophy, San Francisco State University, USA DIANE BLAKEMORE is Professor of Linguistics and Associate Head (Research) in the School of Languages, European Studies Research Institute, Salford University, UK REINHARD BLUTNER is Privatdozent at the Humboldt-University in Berlin, Germany HERMAN CAPPELEN is Lecturer in Philosophy University of Oxford, UK MARJOLEIN GROEFSEMA is Subject Leader for English Language and Communication, School of Humanities, University of Hertfordshire, UK LAURENCE R. HORN is Professor of Linguistics and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Yale University, USA ERNEST LEPORE is Director for the Rutgers University Centre for Cognitive Science (RuCCS), USA IRA NOVECK is a research scientist at the Institute of Cognitive Science, Lyon, France DAN SPERBER is Director of Research at the Institute of Cognitive Science, Lyon, France FRANÇOIS RECANATI is Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Paris, France. DEIRDRE WILSON is Professor of Linguistics, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London, UK ROBYN CARSTON is Professor of Linguistics, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London, UK
