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

This book revives the study of conventional implicatures in natural language semantics. H. Paul Grice first defined the concept. Since then his definition has s

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

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

Scalar implicatures have enjoyed the status of one of the most researched topics in both theoretical and experimental pragmatics in recent years. This Research