Implicitness
From lexis to discourse
Editors
| University of Łódź
| University of Łódź
Although the term implicitness is ubiquitous in the pragmatic scholarship, it has rarely constituted the focus of attention per se. This book aims to help crystallize the concept of implicitness by defining its linguistic boundaries, as well as specifying and exploring its different communicative manifestations. The contributions by leading specialists scrutinize the main conceptualizations, forms and occurrences of implicitness (such as implicature, impliciture, explicature, entailment, presupposition, etc.) at different levels of linguistic organization. The volume focuses on phrasal, sentential, and discursive phenomena, showcasing the richness and variety of implicit forms of communication, systematizing (where possible) the existing analytic perspectives, and identifying the most productive procedures for further exploration. Taken together, the chapters exhibit theoretical differences that hinder a consensus on the nature of implicitness, but they simultaneously reveal methodological points of contact and raise common questions, thereby signposting a future analytic agenda. The book will appeal to both theoretically and empirically minded scholars working within and across the disciplines of Pragmatics, Semantics, Language Philosophy, Discourse Analysis, and Communication Studies.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 276] 2017. vi, 306 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1. Implicitness: Familiar terra incognita in pragmaticsMarta Dynel and Piotr Cap | pp. 1–12
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Part I. Word and phrase
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Chapter 2. What’s a reading?Mira Ariel | pp. 15–36
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Chapter 3. Pronouns and implicatureWayne A. Davis | pp. 37–66
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Chapter 4. Implicitness in the lexis: Lexical narrowing and neo-Gricean pragmaticsYan Huang | pp. 67–94
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Chapter 5. Zero subject anaphors and extralinguistically motivated subject pro-drop in Hungarian language useEnikő Németh T. | pp. 95–118
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Part II. Sentence and utterance
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Chapter 6. Implicitness via overt untruthfulness: Grice on Quality-based figures of speechMarta Dynel | pp. 121–146
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Chapter 7. Lexical pragmatics and implicit communicationDeirdre Wilson and Patricia Kolaiti | pp. 147–176
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Chapter 8. Indirect ritual offence: A study on elusive impolitenessDániel Z. Kádár | pp. 177–200
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Chapter 9. Implicitness in the use of situation-bound utterancesIstvan Kecskes | pp. 201–216
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Chapter 10. Thematic silence as a speech actDennis Kurzon | pp. 217–232
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Part III. Text and discourse
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Chapter 11. The dynamics of discourse: Quantity meets qualityAnita Fetzer | pp. 235–258
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Chapter 12. Why don’t you tell it explicitly? Personal/subpersonal accounts of implicitnessMarco Mazzone | pp. 259–280
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Chapter 13. Implicature and the inferential substrateMichael Haugh | pp. 281–304
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Index
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Implicitness: From lexis to discourse is a valuable contribution for anyone with a strong background in pragmatics who may be (too) prone to utilize the concept ‘implicitness’ without exactly knowing what it (implicitly) conveys. The book covers a very wide range of topics on implicitness, so that every scholar will be able to learn what makes an utterance implicit or how meaning is implicitly construed in interaction.”
Naomi Truan, Sorbonne Université, on Linguist List 29.2960
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Subjects & Metadata
BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN009030 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics