Wiley.com
Print this page Share

Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines Meaning

ISBN: 978-1-4051-1263-5
Hardcover
328 pages
August 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
List Price: US $139.25
Government Price: US $79.95
Enter Quantity:   Buy
Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines Meaning (1405112638) cover image
This is a Print-on-Demand title. It will be printed specifically to fill your order. Please allow an additional 15-20 days delivery time. The book is not returnable.
Other Available Formats: Paperback

"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

"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

Related Titles

More From This Series

by Michiel Van Lambalgen, Fritz Hamm

Semantics

by Jennifer Hornsby (Editor), Guy Longworth (Editor)
by Jennifer Hornsby (Editor), Guy Longworth (Editor)
by Peter A. M. Seuren
Back to Top