Contents

Chapter 1 Cognite Pragmatics : An Overview
1. Introduction
2. An Overview of Pragmatics
3. From Philosophy of Language to Cognitive Science
4. The Central Issues of Cognitive Pragmatics
5. The Approaches to Cognittive Pragmatics
6. The Relationship Between Cognitive Pragmatics and Cognitive Linguistics
7. The Developing Trends of Cognitive Pragmatics


Chapter 2 Conversational Implicature
1. Introduction
2. Meaning and Intention
3. Classic-Gricean Theory of Conversational Implicatures
4. Neo-Gricean Period
5. Development of Relevance Theory on Conversational Implicatures
6. Summary


Chapter 3 Linguistic Communication and Its Models
1. Introduction
2. The Code Model of Linguistic Communication
3. The Inferential Model of Linguistic Communication
4. The Ostensive-inferential Model of Linguistic Communication
5. Summary


Chapter 4 Cognitive Context
1. Introduction
2. Traditional Context
3. Cognitive Context
4. A Comparison Between Tradational Context and Cognitive Context
5. Cognitive Context in Communication
6. Summary


Chapter 5 Principle and Communication Principle
1. Introduction
2. Relevance and Communication
3. The Principle of Relevance
4. Two Principles of Relevance
5. Summary


Chapter 6 Pragmatic Inference
1. Introduction
2. Logical Inference
3. Features of Pragmatic Inference
4. The Dynamic Model of Pragmatic Inference
5. Bridging and Cognitive Inference
6. Summary


Chapter 7 Explicature and Implicature
1. Introduction
2. Traditional Distinction of “What is said” and “What is implied”
3. Relevance-theoretic Pragmatics
4. Pragmatic Tasks in Explicature Derivation
5. Summary


Chapter 8 Conceptual Meaning and Procedural Meaning
1. Introduction
2. The Theoretical Framework
3. Definitions of Conceptual Meaning and Procedural Meaning
4. Conceptual-procedural Meaning and Relevance-theoretic Semantics
5. Criteria for identification
6. Procedural Expressions
7. Summary


Chapter 9 A Cog-pragmatic Study of Reference Assignment and Discourse Markers
1. Introduction
2. Pragmatic Enrichment
3. Pragmatic Enrichment on Polysemy with Relevance Theory
4. Summary
Index