Publications

Publication details [#41897]

Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins

Annotation

Inferential pragmatics, semiotics and anthropology constitute three fundamental perspectives on implicitness. Concentrating on linguistic approaches to implicitness, this essay mainly discusses basic notions related to implicitness in general, which ultimately may have to be reinterpreted in terms of general concepts such as coherence, politeness, and involvement. Moving from similar remarks, Östman (1986) treats implicitness as the defining characteristic of pragmatics.