商品簡介
Carston (linguistics, U. College, London) examines two distinctions central to theories on utterance understanding: the semantics/pragmatics distinction and the distinction between what is explicitly and implicitly communicated. She posits that the linguistically encoded meaning of an utterance underdetermines the propositions explicitly communicated by the utterance. In developing her argument, Carston draws on Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory and the work of Paul Grice, Francois Recanati, Kent Bach, and Stephen Levinson. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Robyn Carston is Reader in Linguistics at University College London. She is co-editor of Relevance Theory: Applications and Implications (1998).
