In recent years, quantity implicatures - a type of pragmatic inference - have been widely debated in linguistics, philosophy, and psychology, and have been subj

An integrative and lucid analysis of central topics in the field of linguistic pragmatics deixis, implicature, presupposition, speed acts, and conversational st

Offers an accessible and thorough introduction to implicatures in pragmatics, and its interfaces with language and cognition.

The goal of this collective monograph is to explore the relationship between the cognitive notion of number and various grammatical devices expressing this conc

"Implicatures in Discourse" examines Spanish conversations and oral narratives in order to seek support for a pragmatic theory of anaphora. Blackwell argues tha