5. Notes for a restrictive theory of procedural meaning

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents ix
4. List of contributors xii
5. Introduction
6. 1. Introduction 3
7. Part I: Socio-cognitive and experimental pragmatics
8. 2. The emergence of common ground 13
9. 3. Overcoming differences and achieving common ground: Why speaker and hearer make the effort and how they go about it 31
10. 4. “Is there a tumour in your humour?”: On misunderstanding and miscommunication in conversational humour 55
11. 5. Notes for a restrictive theory of procedural meaning 79
12. 6. Deniability and explicatures 97
13. 7. The acquisition of loanword pragmatics: An exploration 121
14. 8. (Im)politeness: Metalinguistic labels and concepts in English 135
15. Part II: Philosophical and discourse pragmatics
16. 9. What lies beyond: Untangling the web 151
17. 10. The true provenance of self-reference: A case for salience-based contextualism 175
18. 11. Transparent reports as free-form idioms 193
19. 12. How speaker meaning, explicature and implicature work together 215
20. 13. Temporally closed situations for the Chinese perfective LE 了 233
21. 14. Acategorical pragmatic markers: From thematic analysis to adaptive management in discourse 255
22. 15. Contrastive discourse relations in context: Evidence from monologic and dialogic editing tasks 269
23. 16. Pragmatics and multimodality. A reflection on multimodal pragmastylistics 293
24. Part III: Interpersonal and societal pragmatics
25. 17. Pragmatic competence and pragmatic variation 315
26. 18. Offers in English 335
27. 19. The intercultural speaker abroad 353
28. 20. Pragmatics and children’s literature 371
29. 21. Unloading the weapon: Act and tact 389
30. 22. The meanings and contents of aesthetic statements 399
31. Index 418