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Robyn Carston on semantics, pragmatics and ‘encoding’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2005

NOEL BURTON-ROBERTS
NOEL BURTON-ROBERTS
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle
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Abstract

Robyn Carston,Thoughts and utterances: the pragmatics of explicit communication. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. Pp. x+408.

Robyn Carston's Thoughts and utterances is, in every sense, a big book. The result of years of thinking about communication from a relevance-theoretic perspective, it is long, wide-ranging, rich, intricate, demanding and radical. And it is (or should be) controversial. Essential reading therefore for anyone with any interest in language and communication, philosophy of language, semantics and pragmatics.

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Review Article
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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , July 2005 , pp. 389 - 407
Copyright
2005 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

I am grateful to the Journal of Lingustics referees, Diane Blakemore, Phil Carr, Deirdre Wilson, David Young and, particularly, Robyn Carston herself for discussion.