Thoughts and Utterances

Thoughts and Utterances
Author: Robyn Carston
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0470754559


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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.