Aboutness has been studied from any number of angles. Brentano made it the defining
feature of the mental. Phenomenologists try to pin down the aboutness-features of particular …

Relevance theory may be seen as an attempt to work out in detail one of Grice's central
claims: that an essential feature of most human communication is the expression and …

Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics-the study of language in use-has
been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on …

This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts,
those of politeness and implicature. A theory of implicature as social action and …

This book argues against the traditional understanding of the semantics/pragmatics divide
and puts forward a radical alternative. Through half a dozen case studies, it shows that what …

This article develops various arguments for the view that scalar implicatures should be de-
rived within grammar and not by a theory of language use (pragmatics). We focus primarily …

5 IMPLICATURE Page 1 1.5 IMPLICATURE Laurence Horn A year after unveiling implicature
in his William James lectures at Harvard, Paul Grice (1968) published one of the lectures, a …

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 …

Scalar implicatures depend on alternatives in order to avoid the symmetry problem. I argue
for a structure-sensitive characterization of these alternatives: the alternatives for a structure …

Recently there has been a lively revival of interest in implicatures, particularly scalar
implicatures. Building on the resulting literature, our main goal in the present paper is to …