Foreword

The current issue of the Journal is devoted to the proceedings of the conference on The Implicit in the Short Story in English organized by the Centre de Recherche Inter-Langues d'Angers and held at the University of Angers on December 6 and 7, 2002. The aim of the conference was to use the theories on the implicit dimension of language developed by pragmatic linguistics as a basis for developing a poetics of the implicit in the short story in English. The notions of presupposition, the impli..