Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines MeaningISBN: 978-1-4051-1263-5
Hardcover
328 pages
August 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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"Move over, Austen--and Austin. Prodigiously comprehensive and
engagingly presented, Beaver and Clark's rich and subtle study of
focus is essential reading on intonational meaning, scalar
particles, implicature, presupposition, polarity licensing, and
alternative semantics. This is sensitivity training of the highest
order."
–Laurence Horn, Yale University
–Laurence Horn, Yale University
"Sense and Sensitivity merits a close reading by anyone
interested in contemporary pragmatic theory. It is clearly written
and accessible, and offers a carefully reasoned case for lexical
sensitivity to focus. Beaver and Clark's thesis is sure to serve as
a touchstone for further work on the subject."
–Craige Roberts, Ohio State University