Introduction to Pragmatics guides students through traditional and new approaches in the
field, focusing particularly on phenomena at the elusive semantics/pragmatics boundary to …

Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics-the study of language in use-has
been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on …

Since the publication of Ron Langacker's monumental, two-volume Foundations of
Cognitive Grammar in 1987 and 1991, the cognitive approach to grammar has established …

5 IMPLICATURE Page 1 1.5 IMPLICATURE Laurence Horn A year after unveiling implicature
in his William James lectures at Harvard, Paul Grice (1968) published one of the lectures, a …

Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics the received wisdom is
that'pragmatics' simply cannot be coherently defined. In this groundbreaking book Mira Ariel …

Proportional quantifiers have played a central role in the development of formal semantics
because they set a benchmark for the expressive power needed to describe quantification in …

On the naive account of scalar modifiers like more than and at least, At least three girls
snored is synonymous with More than two girls snored, and both sentences mean that the …

In reports filed from several fronts in the semantics/pragmatics border wars, I seek to bolster
the loyalist (neo-)-Gricean forces against various recent revisionist sorties, including (but not …

In this study I look into some of the functions people believe are specific to negation vis-à-vis
affirmation in order to question the asymmetry between the two, which is the received view …

Pragmatics has grown considerably in its relatively short history, from its original disciplinary
influences in philosophy and linguistics, into a multidisciplinary field that encompasses a …