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The Semantics and Pragmatics of Preposing

Author : Gregory L. Ward
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134992971
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book The Semantics and Pragmatics of Preposing written by Gregory L. Ward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, this book examines the aspects of pragmatic competence involving the class of preposing constructions in English. By limiting the scope of investigation to particular grammatical categories, the author argues previous studies have failed to capture significant pragmatic generalisations. The author asserts what distinguishes one preposing type from another are the semantic and pragmatic properties of the referent of that constituent. After a review of the past literature on preposing, the book goes on to present a pragmatic theory in which two discourse functions of preposing are proposed. It then provides a functional taxonomy of the various preposing types which the theory is designed to account for. One type of preposing, Topicalization, and two of its subtypes, Proposition Affirmation and Ironic Preposing, are discussed in detail in the subsequent chapters before the book concludes with a summary along with directions for future research.

The Semantics and Pragmatics of Preposing

Author : Gregory Louis Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book The Semantics and Pragmatics of Preposing written by Gregory Louis Ward and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Semantics and Pragmatics of Preposing

Author : Gregory L. Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Semantics and Pragmatics of Preposing written by Gregory L. Ward and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Meaning of the Sentence in Its Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects

Author : P. Sgall
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9789027718389
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (183 download)

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Book Synopsis The Meaning of the Sentence in Its Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects by : P. Sgall

Download or read book The Meaning of the Sentence in Its Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects written by P. Sgall and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1986-05-31 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pragmatics

Author : Betty J. Birner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198828586
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Pragmatics written by Betty J. Birner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a concise but comprehensive entry-level guide to the study of meaning in context. Betty Birner explores how we understand the difference between the literal meaning of what is said and what was intended by the speaker, using a wide range of real-life examples.

Linguistic Explorations

Author : In-Seok Yang
Publisher : 한신문화사
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis Linguistic Explorations by : In-Seok Yang

Download or read book Linguistic Explorations written by In-Seok Yang and published by 한신문화사. This book was released on 1993 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Handbook of Pragmatics

Author : Laurence Horn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470756713
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Pragmatics written by Laurence Horn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Pragmatics is a collection of newly commissioned articles that provide an authoritative and accessible introduction to the field, including an overview of the foundations of pragmatic theory and a detailed examination of the rich and varied theoretical and empirical subdomains of pragmatics. Contains 32 newly commissioned articles that outline the central themes and challenges for current research in the field of linguistic pragmatics. Provides authoritative and accessible introduction to the field and a detailed examination of the varied theoretical and empirical subdomains of pragmatics. Includes extensive bibliography that serves as a research tool for those working in pragmatics and allied fields in linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science. Valuable resource for both students and professional researchers investigating the properties of meaning, reference, and context in natural language.

The Semantics of Prepositions

Author : Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110872579
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis The Semantics of Prepositions by : Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt

Download or read book The Semantics of Prepositions written by Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics

Author : Keith Allan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139501895
Total Pages : 967 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics written by Keith Allan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 967 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pragmatics is the study of human communication: the choices speakers make to express their intended meaning and the kinds of inferences that hearers draw from an utterance in the context of its use. This Handbook surveys pragmatics from different perspectives, presenting the main theories in pragmatic research, incorporating seminal research as well as cutting-edge solutions. It addresses questions of rational and empirical research methods, what counts as an adequate and successful pragmatic theory, and how to go about answering problems raised in pragmatic theory. In the fast-developing field of pragmatics, this Handbook fills the gap in the market for a one-stop resource to the wide scope of today's research and the intricacy of the many theoretical debates. It is an authoritative guide for graduate students and researchers with its focus on the areas and theories that will mark progress in pragmatic research in the future.

Adpositions

Author : Dennis Kurzon
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027290245
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Adpositions written by Dennis Kurzon and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of articles which deal with adpositions in a variety of languages and from a number of perspectives. Not only does the book cover what is traditionally treated in studies from a European and Semitic orientation – prepositions, but it presents studies on postpositions, too. The main languages dealt with in the collection are English, French and Hebrew, but there are articles devoted to other languages including Korean, Turkic languages, Armenian, Russian and Ukrainian. Adpositions are treated by some authors from a semantic perspective, by others as syntactic units, and a third group of authors distinguishes adpositions from the point of view of their pragmatic function. This work is of interest to students and researchers in theoretical and applied linguistics, as well as to those who have a special interest in any of the languages treated.

Defining Pragmatics

Author : Mira Ariel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521732034
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Defining Pragmatics written by Mira Ariel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research surveys in Linguistics In large domains of theoretical and empirical linguistics, scholarly communication needs are directly comparable to those in analytical and natural sciences. Conspicuously lacking in the inventory publications for linguists, compared to those in the sciences, are concise, single-authored, non-textbook reviews of rapidly evolving areas of inquiry. Research Surveys in Linguistics is intended to fill this gap. It consists of well-indexed volumes that survey topics of significant theoretical interest on which there has been a proliferation of research in the last two decades. The goal is to provide an efficient overview and entry into the primary literature for linguists - both advanced students and researchers -who wish to move into, or stay literate in, the areas covered. Series authors are recognized authorities on the subject matter as well as clear, highly organized writers. Each book offers the reader relatively tight structuring in sections and subsections and a detailed index for ease of orientation. Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics (context-dependence, nontruthconditionality, implicitness, etc.), the received wisdom is that "pragmatics" simply cannot be coherently defined. In this ground-breaking book, Mira Ariel challenges the prominent definitions of pragmatics, as well as the widely held assumption that specific topics - implicatures, deixis, speech acts, politeness - naturally and uniformly belong on the pragmatics turf. She reconstitutes the field, defining grammar as a set of conventional codes, and pragmatics as a set of inferences, rationally derived. The book applies this division of labor between codes and inferences to many classical pragmatic phenomena, and even to phenomena considered "beyond pragmatics." Surprisingly, although some of these turn out pragmatic, others actually turn out grammatical. Additional intriguing questions addressed in the book include: Why is it sometimes difficult to distinguish grammar from pragmatics? Why is there no grand design behind grammar or behind pragmatics? Are all extragrammatical phenomena pragmatic? Includes a basic introduction to the main topics in pragmatics Shows how different approaches to pragmatics can be integrated with each other Based on natural, attested examples, from many languages Extra examples are available online at www.cambridge.org/ariel "In a masterful confrontation with decades of received wisdom, Mira Ariel redefines the proper task of pragmatics in a simple, crystal-clear way. An essential read."-Arie Verhagen. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics "...a new way to unify the field of linguistic pragmatics. Ariel critically surveys ten criteria for defining pragmatics, and argues for equating it with inferential as opposed to encoded meaning. She then shows how to apply the definition to the complete range of topics taken to constitute pragmatics in a broad sense."-Nancy Hedberg, Simon Fraser University

Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding

Author : Georgia M. Green
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136492828
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding written by Georgia M. Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book differs from other introductions to pragmatics in approaching the problems of interpreting language use in terms of interpersonal modelling of beliefs and intentions. It is intended to make issues involved in language understanding, such as speech, text, and discourse, accessible to the widest group possible -- not just specialists in linguistics or communication theorists -- but all scholars and researchers whose enterprises depend on having a useful model of how communicative agents understand utterances and expect their own utterances to be understood. Based on feedback from readers over the past seven years, explanations in every chapter have been improved and updated in this thoroughly revised version of the original text published in 1989. The most extensive revisions concern the relevance of technical notions of mutual and normal belief, and the futility of using the notion 'null context' to describe meaning. In addition, the discussion of implicature now includes an extended explication of "Grice's Cooperative Principle" which attempts to put it in the context of his theory of meaning and rationality, and to preclude misinterpretations which it has suffered over the past 20 years. The revised chapter exploits the notion of normal belief to improve the account of conversational implicature.

Semantics. Volume 2

Author : Klaus von Heusinger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110255073
Total Pages : 1079 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Semantics. Volume 2 by : Klaus von Heusinger

Download or read book Semantics. Volume 2 written by Klaus von Heusinger and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-23 with total page 1079 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "SEMANTICS (VON HEUSINGER ET AL.) BD. 33.2 HSK E-BOOK".

Formal Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural Languages

Author : Franz Guenthner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400997752
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Formal Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural Languages by : Franz Guenthner

Download or read book Formal Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural Languages written by Franz Guenthner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection are the outgrowth of a workshop, held in June 1976, on formal approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of natural languages. They document in an astoundingly uniform way the develop ments in the formal analysis of natural languages since the late sixties. The avowed aim of the' workshop was in fact to assess the progress made in the application of formal methods to semantics, to confront different approaches to essentially the same problems on the one hand, and, on the other, to show the way in relating semantic and pragmatic explanations of linguistic phenomena. Several of these papers can in fact be regarded as attempts to close the 'semiotic circle' by bringing together the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of certain constructions in an explanatory framework thereby making it more than obvious that these three components of an integrated linguistic theory cannot be as neatly separated as one would have liked to believe. In other words, not only can we not elaborate a syntactic description of (a fragment of) a language and then proceed to the semantics (as Montague pointed out already forcefully in 1968), we cannot hope to achieve an adequate integrated syntax and semantics without paying heed to the pragmatic aspects of the constructions involved. The behavior of polarity items, 'quantifiers' like any, conditionals or even logical particles like and and or in non-indicative sentences is clear-cut evidence for the need to let each component of the grammar inform the other.

Semantics - Sentence and Information Structure

Author : Paul Portner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110589869
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Semantics - Sentence and Information Structure written by Paul Portner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read this book to get a deeper understanding of a wide range of semantics research on complex sentences and meaning in discourse. These in-depth articles from leading names in their fields cover the core concepts of sentential semantics such as tense, modality, conditionality, propositional attitudes, scope, negation, and coordination. The highly cited material, covers questions, imperatives, copular clauses, and existential sentences. It also includes essential research on sentence types, and explains central concepts in the theory of information structure and discourse structure, such as topics, cohesion and coherence, accessibility and discourse particles.

Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions

Author : Patrick Saint-Dizier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402038495
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions by : Patrick Saint-Dizier

Download or read book Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions written by Patrick Saint-Dizier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-18 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to provide an integrated view of preposition from morphology to reasoning, via syntax and semantics. It offers new insights in applied and formal linguistics, and cognitive science. It underlines the importance of prepositions in a number of computational linguistics applications, such as information retrieval and machine translation. The reader will benefit from a wide range of views and applications to various linguistic frameworks, among which, most notably, HPSG. The book is for researchers working in the fields of computational linguistics, linguistics, and artificial intelligence.

The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics

Author : Yan Huang
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191065218
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics written by Yan Huang and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together distinguished scholars from all over the world to present an authoritative, thorough, and yet accessible state-of-the-art survey of current issues in pragmatics. Following an introduction by the editor, the volume is divided into five thematic parts. Chapters in Part I are concerned with schools of thought, foundations, and theories, while Part II deals with central topics in pragmatics, including implicature, presupposition, speech acts, deixis, reference, and context. In Part III, the focus is on cognitively-oriented pragmatics, covering topics such as computational, experimental, and neuropragmatics. Part IV takes a look at socially and culturally-oriented pragmatics such as politeness/impoliteness studies, cross- and intercultural, and interlanguage pragmatics. Finally, the chapters in Part V explore the interfaces of pragmatics with semantics, grammar, morphology, the lexicon, prosody, language change, and information structure. The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics will be an indispensable reference for scholars and students of pragmatics of all theoretical stripes. It will also be a valuable resource for linguists in other fields, including philosophy of language, semantics, morphosyntax, prosody, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics, and for researchers and students in the fields of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, computer science, anthropology, and sociology.