The Semantics Pragmatics Controversy

Author : Kristin Börjesson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110333411

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The Semantics-Pragmatics Controversy by Kristin Börjesson Pdf

Currently, there is a great number of approaches to the semantics-pragmatics distinction on the market. This book is unique in that it offers a comprehensive overview, comparison and critical evaluation of these approaches. Taking as a starting point the notorious difficulty of differentiating so-called literal from non-literal (or figurative) meaning, it covers a wide range of the key current topics in semantics and pragmatics, e.g., the saying/meaning distinction, minimalism vs. contextualism, unarticulated constituents, indexicalism, (generalised) conversational implicatures, speech acts, levels of meaning in interpretation, the role of context in interpretation, the nature of lexical meaning. Notably, rather than taking a solely theoretical perspective, the book integrates psycho- and neurolinguistic perspectives, considering experimental results concerning the (differences in) processing of the various types of meaning covered. In terms of topics covered and perspectives taken, it is equally well suited for undergraduate as well as postgraduate students of linguistics and/or philosophy of language.

Author : Kristin Börjesson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110372588

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The Semantics-Pragmatics Controversy by Kristin Börjesson Pdf

Currently, there is a great number of approaches to the semantics-pragmatics distinction on the market. This book is unique in that it offers a comprehensive overview, comparison and critical evaluation of these approaches. Taking as a starting point the notorious difficulty of differentiating so-called literal from non-literal (or figurative) meaning, it covers a wide range of the key current topics in semantics and pragmatics, e.g., the saying/meaning distinction, minimalism vs. contextualism, unarticulated constituents, indexicalism, (generalised) conversational implicatures, speech acts, levels of meaning in interpretation, the role of context in interpretation, the nature of lexical meaning. Notably, rather than taking a solely theoretical perspective, the book integrates psycho- and neurolinguistic perspectives, considering experimental results concerning the (differences in) processing of the various types of meaning covered. In terms of topics covered and perspectives taken, it is equally well suited for undergraduate as well as postgraduate students of linguistics and/or philosophy of language.

Author : Maite Ezcurdia,Robert J. Stainton
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781554810697

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The Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary in Philosophy by Maite Ezcurdia,Robert J. Stainton Pdf

The boundary between semantics and pragmatics has been important since the early twentieth century, but in the last twenty-five years it has become the central issue in the philosophy of language. This anthology collects classic philosophical papers on the topic, along with recent key contributions. It stresses not only the nature of the boundary, but also its importance for philosophy generally.

Author : Klaus von Heusinger,Ken Turner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780080462608

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Where Semantics meets Pragmatics by Klaus von Heusinger,Ken Turner Pdf

The Current Research in the Semantic / Pragmatics Interface series has carved out a new and vibrant area of research. This volume offers the reader a state-of-the-art record of new and established research in this area. Von Heusinger and Turner's careful selection of topics and contributors ensures that each chapter integrates semantic and pragmatic facts into a single theory, that each finds an adequate division of theoretical labour and that each attempts to design and corroborate an elegant account of meaning and use that would be compatible with other aspects of human behaviour. Importantly, each paper in the volume focuses on linguistic detail, not merely abstract discussions of a theoretical nature. Thus each paper makes extensive reference to the semantic and pragmatic facts of English and also other languages. This reference gives each of the proposed analyses a more adequate empirical edge and a sharper theoretical focus. This book is a must for all scholars and students interested in the new and vibrant discipline of semantics-pragmatics and to anyone who is fascinated by the prospect of working beyond the traditional disciplinary boundaries of linguistics and the philosophy of language. The chapters in this volume originate from a workshop at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, held at Michigan State University.

Author : Ken Turner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780857249098

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Making Semantics Pragmatic by Ken Turner Pdf

A collection of invited papers that intends 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. It contains papers that address the topic of 'making pragmatics semantic'.

Author : Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780080552934

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Particles at the Semantics/pragmatics Interface by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen Pdf

This book elucidates the nature of the semantics / pragmatics distinction in both synchrony and diachrony and proposes a definition of semantics and pragmatics that is orthogonal to the question of truth-conditionality. A corollary aim of the study is to propose an account of how and why erstwhile pragmatically-determined elements of meaning may, in the course of time, become semanticized.

Author : Edgar Onea
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004217935

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Potential Questions at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface by Edgar Onea Pdf

In Potential Questions at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface Edgar Onea proposes a novel component for question under discussion based discourse pragmatic theories thereby combining such theories with new ideas from inquisitive semantics. He shows how potential questions account for an entire range of grammatical phenomena. These phenomena include the semantics of indefinite determiners, the meaning contribution of nominal appositives, specificational constructions and non restrictive relative clauses. This book delivers a comprehensive and empirically rich investigation into the role of questions in natural language interpretation. Drawing on data from German, English, Hungarian and Russian, Edgar Onea's study significantly broadens our understanding of conventional sensitivity to questions through formally rigorous analyses of specificational particles, parentheticals and indefinites. The Potential Questions framework offers a new and exciting perspective on utterance meanings as not just addressing, but also raising questions, with important consequences for integrated analyses of discourse structure and discourse relations. This book is essential reading for anybody interested in the semantics-pragmatics interface. Judith Tonhauser, The Ohio State University

Author : Ferenc Kiefer,István Kenesei,Robert M. Harnish
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Jörg Meibauer,Markus Steinbach
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255587

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Experimental Pragmatics/semantics by Jörg Meibauer,Markus Steinbach Pdf

In recent years, a lively debate ensued on an old issue, namely the proper distinction between semantics and pragmatics against the background of the classical Gricean distinction between what is said and what is implicated . From a linguist s point of view, however, there has always been a regrettable lack of empirical data in this otherwise sophisticated debate. Recently, a new strand of research emerged under the name of experimental pragmatics, the attempt to gain experimental data on pragmatic and semantic issues by using psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic methods. This volume brings together work by scholars engaging in experimental research on the semantics/pragmatics distinction. The contribution of experimental pragmatics to pragmatic and semantic theory is discussed from a number of different angles, ranging from implicature and pragmatic enrichment to pragmatic acquisition, pragmatic impairment, and pragmatic processing. In addition, methodological issues are discussed. The contributions will appeal to theoretical linguists, psycholinguists, neurolinguists, and language philosophers."

Author : Zoltan Gendler Szabo
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191514395

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Semantics versus Pragmatics by Zoltan Gendler Szabo Pdf

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Author : Alessandro Capone,Ferenc Kiefer,Franco Lo Piparo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319213958

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Indirect Reports and Pragmatics by Alessandro Capone,Ferenc Kiefer,Franco Lo Piparo Pdf

This volume offers the reader a singular overview of current thinking on indirect reports. The contributors are eminent researchers from the fields of philosophy of language, theoretical linguistics and communication theory, who answer questions on this important issue. This exciting area of controversy has until now mostly been treated from the viewpoint of philosophy. This volume adds the views from semantics, conversation analysis and sociolinguistics. Authors address matters such as the issue of semantic minimalism vs. radical contextualism, the attribution of responsibility for the modes of presentation associated with Noun Phrases and how to distinguish the indirect reporter’s responsibility from the original speaker’s responsibility. They also explore the connection between indirect reporting and direct quoting. Clearly indirect reporting has some bearing on the semantics/pragmatics debate, however, there is much controversy on “what is said”, whether this is a minimal semantic logical form (enriched by saturating pronominals) or a much richer and fully contextualized logical form. This issue will be discussed from several angles. Many of the authors are contextualists and the discussion brings out the need to take context into account when one deals with indirect reports, both the context of the original utterance and the context of the report. It is interesting to see how rich cues and clues can radically transform the reported message, assigning illocutionary force and how they can be mobilized to distinguish several voices in the utterance. Decoupling the voice of the reporting speaker from that of the reported speaker on the basis of rich contextual clues is an important issue that pragmatic theory has to tackle. Articles on the issue of slurs will bring new light to the issue of decoupling responsibility in indirect reporting, while others are theoretically oriented and deal with deep problems in philosophy and epistemology.

Author : Magdalena Sztencel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319691169

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Semantics, Pragmatics and Meaning Revisited by Magdalena Sztencel Pdf

This book systematically investigates what follows about meaning in language if current views on the limited, or even redundant, role of linguistic semantics are taken to their radical conclusion. Focusing on conditionals, the book defends a wholly pragmatic, wholly inferential account of meaning – one which foregrounds a reasoning subject’s individual state of mind. The topics discussed in the book include conceptual content, internalism and externalism, the semantics-pragmatics distinction, meaning holism and explicit versus implicit communication. These topics and the author’s analysis of conditionals will allow the reader to engage with some traditional and current research in linguistics, philosophy and psychology.

Author : Carlo Penco,Filippo Domaneschi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1575866692

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What is Said and what is Not by Carlo Penco,Filippo Domaneschi Pdf

Author : Jörg Meibauer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614518204

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Lying at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface by Jörg Meibauer Pdf

While lying has been a topic in the philosophy of language, there has been a lack of genuine linguistic analysis of lying. Exploring lying at the semantics-pragmatics interface, this book takes a contextualist stand by arguing that untruthful implicatures and presuppositions are part of the total signification of the act of lying.

Author : Paul Saka,Michael Johnson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,6 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.