Neo-Gricean pragmatic theory: looking back on the past; looking ahead to the future 被引量：7

Neo-Gricean pragmatic theory: looking back on the past; looking ahead to the future

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摘要 The aim of this essay is threefold. In the first place, I shall discuss the transition from classical to neo-Gricean pragmatic theory of conversational implicature. Secondly, I shall present a neo-Gricean pragmatic theory of conversational implicature, focusing on the bipartite system developed by Laurence Horn and the tripartite system advanced by Stephen Levinson. Thirdly and finally, I shall point to a number of directions in which the neo-Gricean pragmatic theory may be developed in the future, including the debate on what is said versus what is conversationally implicated, the interdigitation between neo-Gricean pragmatic principles and bidirectional Optimality theory, the revised neo-Gricean pragmatic theory of anaphora, and the neo-Gricean psycho-pragmatic experimental work. The aim of this essay is threefold. In the first place, I shall discuss the transition from classical to neo-Gricean pragmatic theory of conversational implicature. Secondly, I shall present a neo-Gricean pragmatic theory of conversational implicature, focusing on the bipartite system developed by Laurence Horn and the tripartite system advanced by Stephen Levinson. Thirdly and finally, I shall point to a number of directions in which the neo-Gricean pragmatic theory may be developed in the future, including the debate on what is said versus what is conversationally implicated, the interdigitation between neo-Gricean pragmatic principles and bidirectional Optimality theory, the revised neo-Gricean pragmatic theory of anaphora, and the neo-Gricean psycho-pragmatic experimental work.

作者黄衍

机构地区 School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

出处《外国语》 CSSCI 北大核心 2004年第1期2-25,共24页 Journal of Foreign Languages

关键词语言学话语暗示最优化理论首语重复理论 pragmatics classical and neo-Gricean pragmatic theory conversational implicature Optimality theory neo-Gricean pragmatic theory of anaphora experimental pragmatics

分类号 H315 [语言文字—英语]

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