Index

• A

• affiliation (effect) 261, 276, 281–282

• approximation 9, 73, 147–149, 157–161, 165, 171, 173

• automatic processing 260, 262, 268, 270

• B

• background assumptions 2, 7, 15–18, 20–22, 34, 71, 286–287

• broadening 73, 147, 149–151, 157–161, 163, 165–167, 171–173

• C

• communication
  • explicit 35, 92, 148, 173, 196, 215, 255
  • harmonious 123, 126
  • implicit 3, 12, 64, 147, 213, 215, 262
  • intentional 134, 168, 171, 173
  • theory of 15, 153–154, 156, 168, 172

• communicative
  • goal 39, 197, 241–242, 253, 259–261, 264, 271–276, 278
  • intention 15, 17, 21, 127, 239, 249, 251, 253, 261, 271, 273, 276, 282, 297

• consciousness 255, 262, 266–270, 277

• context
  • discourse 95, 101, 105, 114, 149, 152–155, 162, 164–165
  • experience-based 201, 209–210
  • linguistic 155, 239, 247, 249
  • situational 201, 203, 206–207, 209–211, 213
  • social 205, 247, 266

• context-dependent 4, 6, 10, 72, 84, 152, 154, 160, 166, 171–172, 208, 235, 244, 246, 251, 254, 277

• contextualist (approach) 5, 72

• conventional implicature see implicature

• conventions of usage 201–202

• conversation analysis 2, 217, 237–238, 287, 302–303

• conversational implicature see implicature

• D

• discourse
  • context see context
  • pragmatics 235–237, 246–249, 253–254
  • quality 236–238, 246
  • relations 10, 235, 237–238, 241, 243–247, 254–257
  • unit 10, 235–254

• dominance (effect) 261

• E

• exophoric reference 95, 105

• explicated inference 16, 18–19, 22, 34

• explicature 1–5, 8, 15–19, 25–26, 33–35, 90–91, 152, 160–161

• F

• flouting 77, 121, 123–127, 129, 131–133, 135–142, 278

• foundational theory of meaning 37

• G

• goal see communicative goal

• grammar and pragmatics 95–96, 110, 117–118

• Grice 8–9, 38, 48–51, 67, 76–83, 121–142, 149, 161, 168–173, 241, 263, 267, 271–272, 282–284, 294–296

• H

• humor 139, 170, 261, 275–276

• hyperbole 8–9, 121–122, 131–134, 137, 139–140, 142, 144, 147, 149–150, 157, 159–161, 171, 173

• I

• implicature
  • conventional 4, 37, 55, 57, 66, 283
  • conversational 4, 8, 15, 17–18, 25, 28, 37, 48, 51, 53, 57, 67, 76–79, 82, 90–91, 121–124, 129, 134, 138–139, 155–156, 164, 171, 236, 243, 281–300
  • particularized conversational 4, 15, 18, 50, 56, 77, 124, 236, 250

• implicit
  • arguments 2, 8, 95–98, 100, 102–103, 105–106, 114–115, 117–118
  • meaning 1–4, 6–7, 10, 15, 123, 184, 217, 254, 263–264, 271–273

• implicitness (phenomenon) 1–13, 67, 121–122, 152, 177, 181–182, 184, 194, 196, 201, 206, 212–213, 221, 235, 259–260, 262–263, 267, 269, 271, 274, 276

• (im)politeness 9, 11, 144, 177, 179–184, 193, 196–199, 302 ; see also politeness

• indexicals 5–6, 8, 37, 39–41, 46, 49, 65

• indirectness 1–2, 4, 7, 9–10, 177, 179, 182–184, 188, 196–197, 219, 261, 268, 275, 278, 301, 303

• inference 2–5, 7–8, 15–35, 75, 85, 148, 150–152, 155, 243, 263–265, 269, 272–274, 281–287, 289, 291–300 ; see also explicated inference, Truth-Compatible Inference, schemata of inference

• intention see communicative intention

• interactional pragmatics 281

• irony 8, 50, 121–122, 131–132, 135–139, 141–145, 170, 301

• L

• lexical narrowing 8–9, 67–68, 75, 83–86, 88–91, 147–148, 150–151, 155–156, 161, 164, 166,171–173

• lexical/semantic underspecification 67–68, 70, 75, 246

• M

• maxim (of conversation) 11, 51, 73, 76–82, 87, 121–142, 148–149, 156–157, 160, 170, 229, 251, 257, 266

• meiosis 8, 121–122, 131–134, 137, 139–142

• memory 10, 43, 203–204, 220, 259–260, 268–269, 271–272

• metaphor 8–9, 63, 121–122, 131–132, 134–135, 137, 139–140, 142, 147–150, 153, 156–161, 165, 167, 170–173, 188, 205, 272

• metapragmatic(s) 177, 181, 184, 185, 196

• N

• neo-Gricean lexical pragmatics 67, 89

• O

• offence 9, 177, 179–189, 191, 193–196, 293

• overt untruthfulness 8, 121, 135

• particularized conversational implicature see implicature

• parts-whole perspective 235, 254

• politeness 2, 252–253, 259–263, 265–267, 270–271, 275–276 ; see also (im)politeness

• political speech 217, 219, 221, 224–227, 231

• (practical) reasoning 259, 263–265, 276

• pragmatic enrichment 6, 8, 67–68, 75, 90–91

• pre-semantic conversational implicature 8, 67–68, 93 ; see also implicature

• principle of relevance 95, 97

• pronouns 7–8, 37, 40–41, 44–48, 52–54, 56–58, 64, 81, 105–107, 109

• Q

• quality (of discourse) see discourse

• Quality (maxim) 8–9, 76, 77, 78, 90, 121, 122, 124–142, 157, 170

• R

• reading 7, 15–18, 21–22, 24–28, 30–34, 41, 47, 69, 81, 84, 88, 100, 110–111, 113–114, 124

• Relevance Theory (RT) 3, 8, 20, 75, 90, 107, 135, 152, 154–156, 161, 164, 166, 167, 171, 173, 260–265, 272, 291

• S

• scalar quantifiers 7, 15–18, 22, 24, 27–31, 34–35

• schemata (of inference) 1, 248–249, 260, 269, 271–272

• silence
  • thematic 7, 9, 217, 219, 224, 227, 229, 231
  • typology of 217

• situation-bound utterances 6, 9, 201–205, 212, 219

• social action 10, 242–243, 281, 283, 294–295, 299

• speaker meaning 37–39, 48, 68, 76–77, 90, 121–122, 126–127, 130, 132, 139–142, 282, 300

• subject pro-drop 8, 95, 97–98, 106–107, 115

• T

• tacit knowledge 201, 206–207, 209–210, 213

• Truth-Compatible Inference (TCI) 7, 15–18, 21–22, 24, 26, 28–29, 31, 34–35, 286

• truthfulness 121–122, 125–128, 131, 134, 138, 148–149, 160

• W

• what is said (saying) 2, 15–16, 68–69, 72, 77, 90–91, 122, 124, 126–132, 134, 136, 138, 139–142, 160, 282, 286–287, 294, 299

• zero subject anaphors 8, 95, 97–98, 106–110, 113–115