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Courses and Workshops
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| Title: | Implicature and conversational meaning |
| Lecturer(s): | Bart Geurts (University of Nijmegen) and Rob van der Sandt (University of Nijmegen) |
| Type: | Workshop |
| Section: | Logic and Language |
| Week: | Second | | Time: | 17.00-18.30 (Slot 4) |
| Webpage: | http://www.kun.nl/phil/implicatures
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| Reader: | Download | | Room: | A2 |
Description The central notion that dominated linguistic pragmatics since the early
seventies is Grice's notion of conversational implicature. It is based
on the insight that, by means of general principles of rational
communication, we may convey more with the use of a sentence than just
its conventional meaning. What is actually conveyed depends on the
utterance situation, the linguistic context, and the goals and
preferences of the participants of the conversation. And, what is
actually meant may diverge in various ways from what is literally said.
Over the last few years there is a renewed interest in Gricean
pragmatics from different theoretical perspectives. This comprises
recent work in a dynamic framework, non-monotonic reasoning, and
optimality and game theoretic approaches.
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© 2003, 2004 LORIA, Carlos Areces. |
2004-05-10
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