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The Explicit/Implicit Distinction in Pragmatics and the Limits of Explicit Communication
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The authors make a critical survey of ways in which the explicit/implicit distinction has been and is currently construed in linguistic pragmatics, which reaches the conclusion that the distinction is not to be equated with a semantics/pragmatics distinction but rather concerns a division within communicated contents (or speaker meaning) and homes in on one particular way of drawing such a pragmatically-based distinction, the explicature/implicature distinction in relevance theory.Abstract:
This paper has two main parts. The first is a critical survey of ways in which the explicit/implicit distinction has been and is currently construed in linguistic pragmatics, which reaches the conclusion that the distinction is not to be equated with a semantics/pragmatics distinction but rather concerns a division within communicated contents (or speaker meaning). The second part homes in on one particular way of drawing such a pragmatically-based distinction, the explicature/implicature distinction in Relevance Theory. According to this account, processes of pragmatic enrichment play a major role in the recovery of explicit content and only some of these processes are linguistically triggered, others being entirely pragmatically motivated. I conclude with a brief consideration of the language-communication relation and the limits on explicitness.read more
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Abandoning the notion of “translation-inherent” explicitation: Against a dogma of translation studies
TL;DR: It will be argued that the Explicitation Hypothesis strictly speaking does not even qualify as a scientific hypothesis, since it is unmotivated, unparsimonious and vaguely formulated, and it will be shown that previous studies on explicitation fail to provide conclusive evidence for the hypothesis.
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On-line polylogues and impoliteness: The case of postings sent in response to the Obama Reggaeton YouTube video
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Explicitation and implicitation in translation. A corpus-based study of English-German and German-English translations of business texts
TL;DR: The prediction was that every instance of explicitation (and implicitation) can be explained as a result of lexicogrammatical and/or pragmatic factors and this prediction was essentially confirmed by the study's findings.
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Studies in the Way of Words
TL;DR: This volume, Grice's first hook, includes the long-delayed publication of his enormously influential 1967 William James Lectures as mentioned in this paper, which is a vital book for all who are interested in Anglo-American philosophy.
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Relevance: Communication and Cognition
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Presumptive Meanings: The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature
TL;DR: In this article, the author outlines a theory of presumptive meanings, or preferred interpretations, governing the use of language, building on the idea of implicature developed by the philosopher H. P. Grice.