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Focusing on post-Gricean pragmatic theory, this volume explores key issues such as scalar implicatures, lexical semantics, indexicality, procedural meaning, and the semantics and pragmatics of negation. It features a balanced discussion with both defenses and critiques of Relevance Theory and Neo-Gricean Pragmatics, making it a valuable resource for those interested in contemporary debates and developments in the field of pragmatics.

This highly successful text has long been considered a standard introduction to the practical analysis of English sentence structure. As in previous editions, key concepts such as constituency, category and function are carefully explained as they are introduced