How Long to Read Negative Inversion, Social Meaning, and Gricean Implicature

How Long Does it Take to Read Negative Inversion, Social Meaning, and Gricean Implicature?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 53 minutes to read Negative Inversion, Social Meaning, and Gricean Implicature by William Salmon

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Relying on a wealth of new data, this book argues that long-standing puzzles of Negative Inversion (NI) syntax are not puzzles at all when viewed through the lenses of Gricean pragmatics and Labovian sociolinguistics. Focusing on sentences such as "Can't nobody lift that rock" in African American, Anglo, and Chicano Englishes in Texas, the book provides tidy solutions to problems such as: the NI’s relationship to its non-inverted counterpart, its relationship to existential “there” sentences, to modal existential sentences, to the definiteness effects surrounding its NP subject, the emphatic...

How long is Negative Inversion, Social Meaning, and Gricean Implicature?

Negative Inversion, Social Meaning, and Gricean Implicature by William Salmon is 232 pages long, and a total of 58,464 words.

This makes it 78% the length of the average book. It also has 71% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Negative Inversion, Social Meaning, and Gricean Implicature Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 19 minutes to read Negative Inversion, Social Meaning, and Gricean Implicature aloud.

What Reading Level is Negative Inversion, Social Meaning, and Gricean Implicature?

Negative Inversion, Social Meaning, and Gricean Implicature is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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