{"product_id":"non-lexical-pragmatics","title":"Non-Lexical Pragmatics","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book presents both general issues in pragmatic theories and specific arguments for an inferential approach to pragmatics. At the present time, pragmatics is generally approached from the neo- and post-Gricean perspectives. These perspectives, which stem from philosophical theories of meaning, can be viewed as paradigms, that is, sets of concepts, procedures and results which structure scientific investigations. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe main purpose of the book is to defend a new post-Gricean approach to the substantial lexicon and to the functional lexicon (tenses, connectives), and more specifically to explore lexical and non-lexical pragmatics. A precise approach to lexical and non-lexical pragmatic contents will be developed, with special emphasis on non-lexical temporal and causal information. A model for inferring temporal relations in discourse (the directional inferences model based on French data) is developed. This approach to temporal representations and inferences will be completed by a discussion on how causal inferences are triggered in discourse interpretation. The role of conceptual causal relations, as well as causal procedural information encoded in discourse connectives (mainly \u003ci\u003eparce que\u003c\/i\u003e ‘because’, \u003ci\u003edonc\u003c\/i\u003e ‘therefore’, \u003ci\u003eet\u003c\/i\u003e ‘and’), is empirically and theoretically supported. Pragmatic theory can be described as a very powerful interface system which gives access to lexical and functional information, and which contains rich pragmatic enrichment processes, for non-lexical information (quantifier, tenses, connectives) as well as for lexical information (event predicates). \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book’s originality stems from its demonstration that pragmatic enrichment is structurally constrained, and occurs at the level of explicature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57335182721368,"sku":"9783110218480","price":133.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783110218480.jpg?v=1779280301","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/non-lexical-pragmatics","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}