Semantic And Pragmatic Issues In Discourse And Dialogue

Author : Myriam Bras,Laure Vieu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780585474397

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Semantic and Pragmatic Issues in Discourse and Dialogue by Myriam Bras,Laure Vieu Pdf

This volume addresses contemporary issues in the semantics and the pragmatics of discourse and dialogue. Collected papers aim at providing insights on different theoretical approaches, all of them in the dynamic semantics tradition, such as Dynamic Predicate Logic (DPL).

Author : Ferenc Kiefer,István Kenesei,Robert M. Harnish
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027251096

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Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse by Ferenc Kiefer,István Kenesei,Robert M. Harnish Pdf

Professor Ferenc Kiefer of the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was instrumental in bringing early transformational grammar to Europe. His extensive work contributes substantially to making a connection between the grammatical theory and other areas of linguistics. The 17 essays in this book celebrate his career by continuing to explore inter-area research in linguistics: pragmatics in grammar (de Groot, van Riemsdijk, Dressler & Barbaresi, Comrie), semantic compositionality and pragmatics (Wunderlich, Partee, Borschev, Szabo, Bach), logical structures and universals in semantics and pragmatics (van der Auwera, Bultinck, Burton-Roberts, Harnish, Wierzbicka) dialogue and thematic structure (Jonasson, Doherty, Hajicova, Panevova, Sgall, Allwood, Fraser).

Author : Paul Saka,Michael Johnson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319687476

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The Semantics and Pragmatics of Quotation by Paul Saka,Michael Johnson Pdf

The chapters in this volume address a variety of issues surrounding quotation, such as whether it is a pragmatic or semantic phenomenon, what varieties of quotation exist, and what speech acts are involved in quoting. Quotation poses problems for many prevailing theories of language. One fundamental principle is that for a language to be learnable, speakers must be able to derive the truth-conditions of sentences from the meanings of their parts. Another popular view is that indexical expressions like "I" display a certain fixity -- that they always refer to the speaker using them. Both of these tenets appear to be violated by quotation. This volume is suitable for scholars in philosophy of language, semantics, and pragmatics, and for graduate students in philosophy and linguistics. The book will also be useful for researchers in other fields that study quotation, including psychology and computer science.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004378308

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Questions in Discourse by Anonim Pdf

The volume Questions in Discourse - Semantics contains an overview of the semantic analysis and discourse-structuring role of questions, together with in-depth contributions on individual aspects of question meanings and the function of implicit questions in discourse.

Author : Teun A. van Dijk,Teun Adrianus van Dijk
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Discourse Analysis
ISBN : UOM:39076005973289

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Text and Context by Teun A. van Dijk,Teun Adrianus van Dijk Pdf

Author : Alessandro Capone,Franco Lo Piparo,Marco Carapezza
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319010144

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Perspectives on Linguistic Pragmatics by Alessandro Capone,Franco Lo Piparo,Marco Carapezza Pdf

This volume provides insight into linguistic pragmatics from the perspective of linguists who have been influenced by philosophy. Theory of Mind and perspectives on point of view are presented along with other topics including: semantics vs. semiotics, clinical pragmatics, explicatures, cancellability of explicatures, interactive language use, reference, common ground, presupposition, definiteness, logophoricity and point of view in connection with pragmatic inference, pragmemes and language games, pragmatics and artificial languages, the mechanism of the form/content correlation from a pragmatic point of view, amongst other issues relating to language use. Relevance Theory is introduced as an important framework, allowing readers to familiarize themselves with technical details and linguistic terminology. This book follows on from the first volume: both contain the work of world renowned experts who discuss theories relevant to pragmatics. Here, the relationship between semantics and pragmatics is explored: conversational explicatures are a way to bridge the gap in semantics between underdetermined logical forms and full propositional content. These volumes are written in an accessible way and work well both as a stimulus to further research and as a guide to less experienced researchers and students who would like to know more about this vast, complex, and difficult field of inquiry.

Author : Teun A. Dijk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110826142

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Studies in the Pragmatics of Discourse by Teun A. Dijk Pdf

Studies in the Pragmatics of Discourse Janua Linguarum. Series Maior.

Author : Peter Kühnlein,Hannes Rieser,Henk Zeevat
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027296184

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Perspectives on Dialogue in the New Millennium by Peter Kühnlein,Hannes Rieser,Henk Zeevat Pdf

The formal treatment of the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue became possible through a series of breakthroughs in foundational methodology. There is broad consensus on a couple of issues, like the fact that some variety of dynamic theory is necessary to capture certain characteristics of dialogue. Other matters still are disputed. This volume contains papers both of foundational and applied orientation. It is the result of one of a series of specialized Workshops on Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue that took place in 2001. One can therefore truly say that it mirrors both the state of the art at the end of the past millennium and research strategies that are pursued at the beginning of the new millennium. The collected papers cover the range from philosophy of language to computer science, from the analysis of presupposition to investigations into corpora, and touches upon topics like the role of speech acts in dialogue or language specific phenomena. This broad coverage will make the volume valuable for students of dialogue from all fields of expertise.

Author : Ken Turner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780857249104

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Making Semantics Pragmatic by Ken Turner Pdf

This collection of especially invited papers aims to explore the nature of the semantics/pragmatics interface by examining the extent to which the analysis of certain expressions or constructions can be pragmaticised. As the title of the collection implicates, it is anticipated that the theoretical and descriptive burden will move from semantics to pragmatics. However not all parts of a linguistic system will yield to a pragmatic treatment. The possibility remains that certain expressions or constructions are more economically and elegantly treated in semantic terms. Thus, this collection also contains papers that address the topic of 'making pragmatics semantic'. This collection contributes to the current interest in examining the division of labour between semantics and pragmatics in the analysis of meaning. All of the papers are at the forefront of knowledge in these matters and each contains original empirical analyses and/or novel theoretical perspectives. This book is relevant to courses in university departments of linguistics, modern languages, philosophy and psychology and to a wide range of university teaching and research.

Author : Anita Fetzer,Kerstin Fischer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780080466316

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Lexical Markers of Common Grounds by Anita Fetzer,Kerstin Fischer Pdf

The multifaceted and heterogeneous category of common ground is central to theories of pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse and context. This book addresses current approaches to common ground from the novel perspective of lexical markers. The edited volume falls in two parts. The first part addresses the relationship between mechanisms of grounding and reference to common ground. The second part examines different types of common ground. It is shown that the investigation of lexical markers provides a novel perspective for investigating the relationship between grounding, common ground and common grounds. Contributions are by Sherri L. Condon and Claude G. Cech, Anita Fetzer, Kerstin Fischer, Francois Nemo, Thanh Nyan, Moeko Okada, Carlos Rodriguez Penagos, Karin Pittner and Thora Tenbrink. It reviews current approaches to common ground from the perspective of lexical markers. It is organized into two parts that discuss the relationship between mechanisms of grounding. It is a reference to common ground and the different types of common ground. It reflects current trends in the field that cross methodological boundaries and integrate cognition, context, genre, negotiation of meaning, and dialogue.

Author : Frank Brisard,Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289186

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Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics by Frank Brisard,Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren Pdf

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, cognitive, cultural, social, variational, interactional, or discursive points of view, this fifth volume looks at the field of linguistic pragmatics from a primarily grammatical angle. That is, it asks in which particular sense a variety of older and more recent functional (rather than generative) models of grammar relate to the study of language in use: how this affects their general outlook on language structure, whether issues of language use inform the very makeup of these models or are merely included as possible research themes, and how far the actual integration of pragmatics ultimately goes (is it a module/layer or is the model truly “usage-based”?). Each of the authors presenting these models has taken systematic care to highlight the relevant problems and focus on the implications of considering pragmatic phenomena from the point of view of grammar. Furthermore, a limited number of chapters deal with traditional topics in the grammatical literature, and specifically those which are called pragmatic because they either are not strictly concerned with truth (semantics), or receive their (truth) value only from an interaction with context. In the introduction, these theories and topics are set up against the historical background of a gradually changing attitude, on the part of grammarians, towards questions of linguistic knowledge and behavior, and the role of learning in their relationship.

Author : Guangwu Feng
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : 9781849509343

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A Theory of Conventional Implicature and Pragmatic Markers in Chinese by Guangwu Feng Pdf

Conventional implicature is itself a highly controversial term, understood very differently by various brands of contemporary pragmatic theory. This book sets out to advance a Gricean theoretical framework of conventional implicature. It also intends to offer an analysis of pragmatic markers in Chinese.

Author : Maria Aloni,Alastair Butler,Paul Dekker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780080470993

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Questions in Dynamic Semantics by Maria Aloni,Alastair Butler,Paul Dekker Pdf

The study of questions and answers is challenging for various fields of theoretical linguistics, logic, analytical philosophy, and more recently computer science. Research into questions and answers addresses old and raises new and important questions about the semantics / pragmatics interface and about the dynamics of interpretation. This book brings together current work on the topic as it has been developed in Amsterdam, and congenial academic sites, over the past 15 years. Amsterdam is one of the breeding grounds for the formal study of logic and language, for dynamic semantics, and for the study of questions and answers. It covers the major issues of pragmatic/semantic investigation, including logical relations, context dependence, information structure, and more. It illustrates how semantic/pragmatic stance can be used for problems in other areas of linguistic theorising.

Author : Mingya Liu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781781902714

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Multidimensional Semantics of Evaluative Adverbs by Mingya Liu Pdf

Suitable for linguists and philosophers of language, this book provides a multidimensional analysis for the lexical semantics of evaluative adverbs: nonfactive evaluative adverbs trigger a conventional implicature, whereas, factive evaluative adverbs not only trigger a conventional implicature but also a conventional presupposition.

Author : Victoria Escandell-Vidal,Manuel Leonetti,Aoife Ahern
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780857240941

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Procedural Meaning: Problems and Perspectives by Victoria Escandell-Vidal,Manuel Leonetti,Aoife Ahern Pdf

Although the notion of procedural meaning is found in areas such as discourse markers, reference, tense, modality and intonation, until now there has been no single volume entirely devoted to it. Over 25 years, since the initial proposal by Blakemore, a number of refinements have been suggested, yet some criticisms have also been raised. The role and status of the conceptual / procedural distinction within a theory of human communication and the nature of procedural encoding were in need of reassessment in the light of current research in linguistic theory, cognitive science, experimental pragmatics and language acquisition. The papers collected here serve this general purpose from different standpoints. Some of them consider the topic from the angle of its theoretical foundations and put forth original proposals aimed at clarifying the most controversial issues. Others take a more data-driven orientation and offer novel analyses illustrating how encoded instructions work and how much can be gained from approaching certain linguistic phenomena in procedural terms. The contributions in this volume represent an inflection point in the delimitation and understanding of the notion of procedural meaning and open new paths for future research.