Jiang, Yan (2012) 'A Formal Characterization of Explicature and its Consequences to Explicating in Chinese.' Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 8 (2). pp. 241-253.
Abstract
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 not yet been spelt out in the literature. It then applies the formal characterization to the study of a range of related cases in Chinese grammar. The findings are used to re-examine the minimalism/contextualism debate. We argue that explicature theory does not by nature favour either of the two sides.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Keywords: | explicature, minimalism, contextualism |
| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > School of Languages, Cultures & Linguistics > Department of Linguistics Legacy Departments > Faculty of Languages and Cultures > Department of Linguistics |
| ISSN: | 17431662 |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.1558/lhs.v8i2.243 |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Dec 2015 15:24 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/21490 |
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