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 …

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This book develops a view of logic as a theory of information-driven agency and intelligent
interaction between many agents-with conversation, argumentation and games as guiding …

Over the past few decades, presupposition and implicature have risen to a pre‐eminent
place in semantics and pragmatics. They are now among the most trusted and widely …

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 …

It is well established that meanings associated with linguistic expressions evolve in
systematic ways across time. We have little precise understanding, though, of why and how …

The importance of the notion of implicature in the study of irregular negatives was hinted at
in Chap. 1. First, one of the leading theories maintains that the irregular interpretations of …

A number of recent proposals have used techniques from game theory and Bayesian
cognitive science to formalize Gricean pragmatic reasoning (Frank & Goodman, 2012; …

Quantity implicatures are inferences triggered by an utterance based on what other
utterances a speaker could have made instead. Using ideas and formalisms from game …

This book focuses on the semantic phenomenon of evaluativity and its consequences
across constructions. Evaluativity has traditionally been associated exclusively with the …