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

"Implicatures in Discourse" examines Spanish conversations and oral narratives in order to seek support for a pragmatic theory of anaphora. Blackwell argues tha

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

The author integrates, expands, and deepens his previous publications about irregular (or “metalinguistic”) negations. A total of ten distinct negatives—s