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The Role of Data at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

Author : Eniko Németh T.
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110240270
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis The Role of Data at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface by : Eniko Németh T.

Download or read book The Role of Data at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface written by Eniko Németh T. and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To join the recent debate on data problem in linguistics, this collection of papers provides complex dual purpose analyses at the interface of semantics and pragmatics (including historical, lexical, formal and experimental pragmatics). Based on several current theories and various types of data taken from a number of languages, it discusses object theoretical issues of referentiality, scalar implicatures, implicit arguments, grammaticalization, co-construction and syntactic alternation in their mutual connections to metatheoretical questions concerning the relationship between data and theory.

The Role of Data at the Semantics-pragmatics Interface

Author : Enikő Németh T.
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110240262
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis The Role of Data at the Semantics-pragmatics Interface by : Enikő Németh T.

Download or read book The Role of Data at the Semantics-pragmatics Interface written by Enikő Németh T. and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mouton Series in Pragmatics (MSP) is a timely response to the growing demand for innovative and authoritative monographs and edited volumes from all angles of pragmatics. Recent theoretical work on the semantics/pragmatics interface, applications of evolutionary biology to the study of language, and empirical work within cognitive and developmental psychology and intercultural communication has directed attention to issues that warrant reexamination, as well as revision of some of the central tenets and claims of the field of pragmatics. The series welcomes proposals that reflect this endeavour and exploration within the discipline and neighboring fields such as language philosophy, communication, information science, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition and cognitive science. MSP will provide a forum for authors who represent different subfields of pragmatics including the linguistic, cognitive, social, and intercultural paradigms, and have important and intriguing ideas and research findings to share with scholars who are interested in linguistics in general and pragmatics in particular.

The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics

Author : Maria Aloni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131655273X
Total Pages : 1327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics by : Maria Aloni

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics written by Maria Aloni and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 1327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formal semantics - the scientific study of meaning in natural language - is one of the most fundamental and long-established areas of linguistics. This Handbook offers a comprehensive, yet compact guide to the field, bringing together research from a wide range of world-leading experts. Chapters include coverage of the historical context and foundation of contemporary formal semantics, a survey of the variety of formal/logical approaches to linguistic meaning and an overview of the major areas of research within current semantic theory, broadly conceived. The Handbook also explores the interfaces between semantics and neighbouring disciplines, including research in cognition and computation. This work will be essential reading for students and researchers working in linguistics, philosophy, psychology and computer science.

Potential Questions at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

Author : Edgar Onea
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004217932
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Potential Questions at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface by : Edgar Onea

Download or read book Potential Questions at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface written by Edgar Onea and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Particles at the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface

Author : Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 0080556817
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Book Synopsis Particles at the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface by : Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen

Download or read book Particles at the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface written by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central aim of this study is to elucidate the nature of the semantics / pragmatics distinction in both synchrony and diachrony. The author proposes a definition of semantics and pragmatics that is orthogonal to the question of truth-conditionality, and discusses the status of various types of meaning with respect to this definition. 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. The nature, paths, and mechanisms of diachronic sense changes of the relevant type, as well as the motivations for them, are discussed in some detail. The author combines insights from different sources, prominently frame-based semantics, historical pragmatics, and Peircean semiotics, to arrive at a model of linguistic meaning that is both synchronically and diachronically dynamic, hence capable of integrating structure and usage. As a case study, the synchronic uses and diachronic evolution of the exceptionally polyfunctional French phasal adverbs deja ('already'), encore ('still/yet'), toujours ('still'), and enfin ('finally') are analyzed in some detail, with particular attention being paid to the semantic vs pragmatic nature of the various uses of these items. The book will be of interest to lexical semanticists, pragmaticians, historical linguists, functional/cognitive linguists, discourse analysts, and semioticians.

The Semantics/pragmatics Interface from Different Points of View

Author : Ken P. Turner
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780080430805
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis The Semantics/pragmatics Interface from Different Points of View by : Ken P. Turner

Download or read book The Semantics/pragmatics Interface from Different Points of View written by Ken P. Turner and published by Brill Academic Pub. This book was released on 1999 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardbound. This volume examines explicitly the question of how the semantics and pragmatics of a number of expressions might be responsibly discussed. In the past, the temptation has been for the expressions in question to be discussed either in terms of the semantics, or in terms of the pragmatics, but extremely rarely in terms of both. This book shows how revealing analyses for this interface can be provided for the expressions in question.In specially commissioned chapters from leading authors, the points of view represented include linguistics, logic, computational linguistics, and philosophy.

Investigations of the Syntax-semantics-pragmatics Interface

Author : Robert D. Van Valin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027205728
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Investigations of the Syntax-semantics-pragmatics Interface by : Robert D. Van Valin

Download or read book Investigations of the Syntax-semantics-pragmatics Interface written by Robert D. Van Valin and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigations of the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface presents on-going research in Role and Reference Grammar in a number of critical areas of linguistic theory: verb semantics and argument structure, the nature of syntactic categories and syntactic representation, prosody and syntax, information structure and syntax, and the syntax and semantics of complex sentences. In each of these areas there are important results which not only advance the development of the theory, but also contribute to the broader theoretical discussion. In particular, there are analyses of grammatical phenomena such as transitivity in Kabardian, the verb-less numeral quantifier construction in Japanese, and an unusual kind of complex sentence in Wari' (Chapakuran, Brazil) which not only illustrate the descriptive and explanatory power of the theory, but also present interesting challenges to other approaches. In addition, there are papers looking at the implications and applications of Role and Reference Grammar for neurolinguistic research, parsing and automated text analysis.

English as a Lingua Franca

Author : Istvan Kecskes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107103800
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis English as a Lingua Franca by : Istvan Kecskes

Download or read book English as a Lingua Franca written by Istvan Kecskes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the language behaviour of speakers of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), through the lens of Gricean pragmatics. It will be of interest to a wide range of scholars across the fields of pragmatics, language contact, world Englishes, second language acquisition, and English as a second language.

What is Said and what is Not

Author : Carlo Penco
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781575866697
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (666 download)

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Book Synopsis What is Said and what is Not by : Carlo Penco

Download or read book What is Said and what is Not written by Carlo Penco and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Where Semantics meets Pragmatics

Author : Klaus von Heusinger
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 008046260X
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Where Semantics meets Pragmatics by : Klaus von Heusinger

Download or read book Where Semantics meets Pragmatics written by Klaus von Heusinger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Semantics and Pragmatics: Drawing a Line

Author : Ilse Depraetere
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319322478
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Book Synopsis Semantics and Pragmatics: Drawing a Line by : Ilse Depraetere

Download or read book Semantics and Pragmatics: Drawing a Line written by Ilse Depraetere and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores new territory at the interface between semantics and pragmatics, reassessing a number of linguistic phenomena in the light of recent advances in pragmatic theory. It presents stimulating insights by experts in linguistics and philosophy, including Kent Bach, Philippe de Brabanter, Max Kölbel and François Recanati. The authors begin by reassessing the definition of four theoretical concepts: saturation, free pragmatic enrichment, completion and expansion. They go on to confront (sub)disciplines that have addressed similar issues but that have not necessarily been in close contact, and then turn to questions related to reported speech, modality, indirect requests and prosody. Chapters investigate lexical pragmatics and (cognitive) lexical semantics and other interactions involving experimental pragmatics, construction grammar, clinical linguistics, and the distinction between mental and linguistic content. The authors bridge the gap between different disciplines, subdisciplines and methodologies, supporting cross-fertilization of ideas and indicating the empirical studies that are needed to test current theoretical concepts and push the theory further. Readers will find overviews of the ways in which concepts are defined, empirical data with which they are illustrated and explorations of the theoretical frameworks in which concepts are couched. This exciting exchange of ideas has its origins in the editors’ workshop series on the theme ‘The semantics/pragmatics interface: linguistic, logical and philosophical perspectives’, held at the University of Lille 3 in 2012-13. Scholars of linguistics, logic and philosophy and those interested in the research benefits of crossing disciplines will find this work both accessible and thought-provoking, especially those with an interest in pragmatic theory or semantics.

Making Semantics Pragmatic

Author : Ken Turner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 0857249096
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Making Semantics Pragmatic written by Ken Turner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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'.

Experimental Pragmatics/semantics

Author : Jörg Meibauer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902725558X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Experimental Pragmatics/semantics by : Jörg Meibauer

Download or read book Experimental Pragmatics/semantics written by Jörg Meibauer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

Pragmatics at its Interfaces

Author : Stavros Assimakopoulos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501505084
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Pragmatics at its Interfaces by : Stavros Assimakopoulos

Download or read book Pragmatics at its Interfaces written by Stavros Assimakopoulos and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of the papers included in this volume offer some novel and/or updated perspective on issues of central importance in pragmatics, suggesting original ways in which research in the particular areas they adhere to could advance. Apart from the obvious aim of motivating further discussion on the topics it touches on, a central objective of this volume is to underline that research in pragmatics can and does substantially inform research in numerous other fields of enquiry, namely philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics and conversation analysis, revealing in this way the truly interdisciplinary nature of pragmatics theorizing. In this respect, and given that most of the contributions in this volume are from leading scholars in their respective fields, it is clearly expected that the ideas put forth in this volume will have a profound and long-lasting impact for future research in the area.

Questions in Dynamic Semantics

Author : Maria Aloni
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 0080470998
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Questions in Dynamic Semantics written by Maria Aloni and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case

Author : Jóhanna Barðdal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027289921
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case by : Jóhanna Barðdal

Download or read book The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case written by Jóhanna Barðdal and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-11 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this volume is to bring non-syntactic factors in the development of case into the eye of the research field, by illustrating the integral role of pragmatics, semantics, and discourse structure in the historical development of morphologically marked case systems. The articles represent fifteen typologically diverse languages from four different language families: (i) Indo-European: Vedic Sanskrit, Russian, Greek, Latin, Latvian, Gothic, French, German, Icelandic, and Faroese; (ii) Tibeto-Burman, especially the Bodic languages and Meithei; (iii) Japanese; and (iv) the Pama-Nyungan mixed language Gurindji Kriol. The data also show considerable diversity and include elicited, archival, corpus-based, and naturally occurring data. Discussions of mechanisms where change is obtained include semantically and aspectually motivated synchronic case variation, discourse motivated subject marking, reduction or expansion of case marker distribution, case syncretism motivated by semantics, syntax, or language contact, and case splits motivated by pragmatics, metonymy, and subjectification.

Pragmatics and its Interfaces

Author : Cornelia Ilie
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263760
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Pragmatics and its Interfaces by : Cornelia Ilie

Download or read book Pragmatics and its Interfaces written by Cornelia Ilie and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers state-of-the-art overviews of the cross-disciplinary role and impact of Pragmatics in relation to several areas of study that it interfaces with. Pragmatics has contributed significant insights to a range of disciplines, just as these disciplines have contributed to it. Borrowing and cross-pollination between disciplines is natural, as well as necessary, but at times it seems important to take a pause and reflect on and problematize the role of pragmatics at these interfaces. In an age when disciplinary boundaries are being blurred, we need to investigate the relationship and interplay between pragmatics and related or complementary fields of enquiry with the goal of broadening and deepening our understanding of the contributions and boundaries of pragmatics as such. Here in twelve original contributions, internationally recognized authorities explore the current state and future trends in Pragmatics vis-à-vis adjacent disciplines.