Chapter 1 Cognitive Pragmatics:An Overview 1
1.Introduction 1
2.An Overview of Pragmatics 2
3.From Philosophy of Language to Cognitive Science 5
4.The Central Issues of Cognitive Pragmatics 12
5.The Approaches to Cognitive Pragmatics 20
6.The Relationship Between Cognitive Pragmatics and Cognitive Linguistics 27
7.The Developing Trends of Cognitive Pragmatics 31
Chapter 2 Conversational Implicatures 36
1.Introduction 36
2.Meaning and Intention 37
3.Classic-Gricean Theory of Conversational Implicatures 39
4.Neo Gricean Period 46
5.Development of Relevance Theory on Conversational Implicatures 55
6.Summary 60
Chapter 3 Linguistic Communication and Its Models 63
1.Introduction 63
2.The Code Model of Linguistic Communication 64
3.The Inferential Model of Linguistic Communication 70
4.The Ostensive-inferential Model of Linguistic Communication 73
5.Summary 79
Chapter 4 Cognitive Context 81
1.Introduction 81
2.Traditional Context 82
3.Cognitive Context 88
4.A Comparison Between Traditional Context and Cognitive Context 91
5.Cognitive Context in Communication 99
6.Summary 108
Chapter 5 Cognitive Principle and Communicative Principle 110
1.Introduction 110
2.Relevance and Communication 111
3.The Principle of Relevance 114
4.Two Principles of Relevance 120
5.Summary 128
Chapter 6 Pragmatic Inference 131
1.Introduction 131
2.Logical Inference 132
3.Features of Pragmatic Inference 137
4.The Dynamic Model of Pragmatic Inference 138
5.Bridging and Cognitive Inference 147
6.Summary 163
Chapter 7 Explicature and Implicature 166
1.Introduction 166
2.Traditional Distinction of"What is said"and"What is implied" 167
3.Relevance-theoretic Pragmatics 170
4.Pragmatic Tasks in Explicature Derivation 177
5.Summary 186
Chapter 8 Conceptual Meaning and Procedural Meaning 189
1.Introduction 189
2.The Theoretical Framework 190
3.Definitions of Conceptual Meaning and Procedural Meaning 191
4.Conceptual-procedural Meaning and Relevance-theoretic Semantics 194
5.Criteria for Identification 194
6.Procedural Expressions 197
7.Summary 203
Chapter 9 A Cog-pragmatic Study of Reference Assignment and Discourse Markers 205
1.Introduction 205
2.Reference Assignment 206
3.Discourse Markers 219
4.Summary 238
Chapter 10 Lexical Pragmatics 241
1.Introduction 241
2.Pragmatic Enrichment 242
3.Pragmatic Enrichment on Polysemy with Relevance Theory 252
4.Summary 257
Index 260