Thoughts and Utterances

Thoughts and Utterances PDF Author: Robyn Carston
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470754559
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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Book Description
Thoughts and Utterances is the first sustained investigation of two distinctions which are fundamental to all theories of utterance understanding: the semantics/pragmatics distinction and the distinction between what is explicitly communicated and what is implicitly communicated. Features the first sustained investigation of both the semantics/pragmatics distinction and the distinction between what is explicitly and implicitly communicated in speech.