LINGUIST List 22.865 Sun Feb 20 2011 Books: Discourse Analysis/Pragmatics: Geurts Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Joyce Reid , Quantity Implicatures: Geurts Message 1: Quantity Implicatures: Geurts Date: 09-Feb-2011 From: Joyce Reid <jreidcambridge.org> Subject: Quantity Implicatures: Geurts E-mail this message to a friend Title: Quantity Implicatures Published: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge University Press                 http://us.cambridge.org Author: Bart Geurts Hardback: ISBN: 9780521769136 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 60.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9780521769136 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 99.00 Abstract: In recent years, quantity implicatures - a type of pragmatic inference - have been widely debated in linguistics, philosophy, and psychology, and have been subject to an enormous variety of analyses, ranging from lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic, to various hybrid accounts. In this first book-length discussion of the topic, Bart Geurts presents a theory of quantity implicatures that is resolutely pragmatic, arguing that the orthodox Gricean approach to conversational implicature is capable of accounting for all the standard cases of quantity implicature, and more. He shows how the theory deals with free-choice inferences as merely a garden variety of quantity implicatures, and gives an in-depth treatment of so-called 'embedded implicatures'. Moreover, as well as offering a comprehensive theory of quantity implicatures, he also takes into account experimental data and processing issues. Original and pioneering, and avoiding technical terminology, this insightful study will be invaluable to linguists, philosophers, and experimental psychologists alike. Introduction; 1. Grice; 2. The standard recipe for Q-implicatures; 3. Scalar implicatures; 4. Psychological plausibility; 5. Nonce inferences or defaults?; 6. Intentions, alternatives, and free choice; 7. Embedded implicatures: the problems; 8. Embedded implicatures: a Gricean approach. Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis                             Pragmatics Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=53020 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Emerald Group Publishing Limited http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ Georgetown University Press http://www.press.georgetown.edu John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.eu MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/ Morgan & Claypool Publishers Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com Peter Lang AG http://www.peterlang.com Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/ Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com/ University of Toronto Press http://www.utpjournals.com/ Wiley-Blackwell http://www.wiley.com ---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ---------------------- Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm Graduate Linguistic Students' Association, Umass http://glsa.hypermart.net/ Linguistic Association of Finland http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT http://www.lotpublications.nl/ Pacific Linguistics http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ University of Nebraska Press Page Updated: 20-Feb-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.