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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787584403321

Autore

Feng Guangwu

Titolo

A theory of conventional implicature and pragmatic markers in Chinese / / by Guangwe Feng, Faculty of English language and culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, People's Republic of China

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley, UK : , : Emerald, , 2010

ISBN

90-04-25317-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Collana

Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface, , 1472-7870

Disciplina

495.10141

Soggetti

Chinese language - Discourse analysis

Chinese language - Semantics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revision of work originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D)--University of Reading, 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Grice’s Theory of Meaning -- 3: Conventional Implicature: Some Preliminaries -- 4: Conventional Implicature: Towards a Theory -- 5: Pragmatic Markers in Chinese -- 6: Major Approaches to Pragmatic Markers -- 7: Pragmatic Markers and Conventional Implicature -- 8: Conclusions -- References -- Conventions, Notations and Abbreviations -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The overall aim of this book is to advance a Gricean theoretical framework of conventional implicature within which Chinese pragmatic markers can be accommodated. It has two linked objectives. Firstly it sets out to advance a theory of conventional implicature. Conventional implicature is itself a highly controversial term, understood very differently by various brands of contemporary pragmatic theory, and is a pivotal concept in the debates between the Gricean and Neo-Gricean theorists on the one hand and proponents of Relevance Theory on the other. This book offers an exemplary analysis and definition of what is involved in these current debates, and it both clarifies and 'problematises' a large range of associated issues. The second objective is to offer a principled and systematic analysis of pragmatic markers in Chinese. Markers of this sort (and a range of interconnnected categories including discourse particles) have been the subject of intense investigation in recent years, and this detailed study of Chinese



markers is a contribution in this area which is of substantial importance, both theoretical and empirical.