A Formal Characterization of Explicature and its Consequences to Explicating in Chinese
(2012)
Journal Article
Jiang, Y. (2012). A Formal Characterization of Explicature and its Consequences to Explicating in Chinese. Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 8(2), 241-253. https://doi.org/10.1558/lhs.v8i2.243
This paper studies the notion of explicature and the process of explicating in relevance-theoretic pragmatics against the background of the minimalism versus contextualism controversy. It attempts to give a formal definition of explicature, which has... Read More about A Formal Characterization of Explicature and its Consequences to Explicating in Chinese.