31.2140, Books: Negative Inversion, Social Meaning, and Gricean Implicature: Salmon

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Subject: 31.2140, Books: Negative Inversion, Social Meaning, and Gricean Implicature: Salmon

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Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2020 23:53:27
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: Negative Inversion, Social Meaning, and Gricean Implicature: Salmon

 


Title: Negative Inversion, Social Meaning, and Gricean Implicature 
Subtitle: A Study Across Three Texas Ethnolects 
Series Title: Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP]  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://bit.ly/37Y9NiF 


Author: William Salmon

Hardback: ISBN:  9781501519277 Pages: 218 Price: U.S. $ 114.99


Abstract:

Relying on a wealth of new data, this book argues that long-standing puzzles
of Negative Inversion (NI) syntax are not puzzles at all when viewed through
the lenses of Gricean pragmatics and Labovian sociolinguistics. Focusing on
sentences such as "Can't nobody lift that rock" in African American, Anglo,
and Chicano Englishes in Texas, the book provides tidy solutions to problems
such as: the NI’s relationship to its non-inverted counterpart, its
relationship to existential “there” sentences, to modal existential sentences,
to the definiteness effects surrounding its NP subject, the emphatic meaning
with which it seems to be associated, and more. The book argues that such
issues, which have been explored in the syntax and semantics literature since
the late 1960s, are handled more fruitfully via Gricean reasoning,
demographics of use, and a simple semantics. As such, the book argues that NI
can be freed from the “syntactico-semantic straitjacket” into which it has
often been forced. It also demonstrates ways in which pragmatic and
sociolinguistic thought can be brought together to inform larger linguistic
analyses.

This monograph brings together Gricean pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and the
study of nonstandard English dialects.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=145214




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