Conventional implicature is itself a highly controversial term, understood very differently by various brands of contemporary pragmatic theory. This book sets o

Chinese is a discourse-oriented language and the underlying mechanisms of the language involve encoding and decoding so the language can be correctly delivered

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 19th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2018, held in Chiayi, Taiwan, in Ma

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 b

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