Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. I. Pragmatics and philosophy
5. 2. Back to negative particulars: A truth-conditional pragmatic account 9
6. 3. Colour adjectives, compositionality, and true utterances 33
7. 4. Talk about the future 53
8. 5. Illocutionary effects, presupposition, and implicature 71
9. II. Pragmatics and cognition
10. 6. Is implicit communication a way to escape epistemic vigilance? 91
11. 7. The structure of utterance meaning: how did it come about? 113
12. 8. The role of Theory of Mind, grammatical competence and metapragmatic awareness in irony comprehension 129
13. III. Pragmatics and linguistic analysis
14. 9. Theoretical and methodological issues in the research into implicit arguments in Hungarian 151
15. 10. The Pragmatics of ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ 175
16. 11. Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence: On the interpretation of future tense in Modern Greek 201
17. 12. Redundancy effects in discourse: On the modal particle-combinations ‘halt eben’ and ‘eben halt’ in German 225
18. IV. Conversation analysis
19. 13. The pragmatics of intelligible pronunciation: Preemptive and reactive segmental repair in English as a lingua franca interactions in Japan 257
20. 14. The interactional functions of four repair operations in Hungarian 279
21. Index 311