The Role of Data at the Semantics-pragmatics Interface

The Role of Data at the Semantics-pragmatics Interface
Title The Role of Data at the Semantics-pragmatics Interface PDF eBook
Author Enikő Németh T.
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 437
Release 2010
Genre Computers
ISBN 3110240262

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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

The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics
Title The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics PDF eBook
Author Maria Aloni
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 1239
Release 2016-07-07
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 131655273X

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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.

Lying at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

Lying at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
Title Lying at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface PDF eBook
Author Jörg Meibauer
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 266
Release 2014-07-28
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1614510849

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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.

Potential Questions at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

Potential Questions at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
Title Potential Questions at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface PDF eBook
Author Edgar Onea
Publisher BRILL
Pages 399
Release 2016-02-02
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9004217932

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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

Investigations of the Syntax-semantics-pragmatics Interface

Investigations of the Syntax-semantics-pragmatics Interface
Title Investigations of the Syntax-semantics-pragmatics Interface PDF eBook
Author Robert D. Van Valin
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 512
Release 2008
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027205728

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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.

Particles at the Semantics/pragmatics Interface

Particles at the Semantics/pragmatics Interface
Title Particles at the Semantics/pragmatics Interface PDF eBook
Author Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
Publisher Elsevier
Pages 262
Release 2008
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 0080552935

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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.

What is Said and what is Not

What is Said and what is Not
Title What is Said and what is Not PDF eBook
Author Carlo Penco
Publisher Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
Pages 0
Release 2013
Genre LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN 9781575866673

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This volume contains essays that explore explicit and implicit communication through linguistic research. Taking as a framework Paul Grice's theories on "what is said," the contributors explore a number of areas, including: the boundary between semantics and pragmatics; the concept of implicit communication; the idea of the logical form of our assertions; the notion of conventional meaning; the phenomenon of deixis, which refers to when an utterance require context in order to be understood fully; the treatment of definite descriptions; and the different kinds of pragmatic processes.