Potential Questions At The Semantics Pragmatics Interface

Author : Edgar Onea
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004217932
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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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

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004378324
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Questions in Discourse written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume Questions in Discourse - Vol. 2 Pragmatics collects original research on the role of questions in understanding text structure and discourse pragmatics. Most studies adopt the perspective of (implicit) Questions under Discussion in presenting novel analyses of various discourse-semantic phenomena.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004378308
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Questions in Discourse written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080552935
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Particles at the Semantics/pragmatics Interface written by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2008 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ken Turner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 0857249096
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( 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'.

Author : Maria Aloni
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780080453477
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Questions in Dynamic Semantics written by Maria Aloni and published by Brill Academic Pub. This book was released on 2007 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. This book brings together work on the topic as it has been developed in Amsterdam. It illustrates how semantic/pragmatic stance can be used for problems in other areas of linguistic theorising.

Author : Ken P. Turner
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780080430805
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Klaus von Heusinger
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 008046260X
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Anna Papafragou
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 0585474192
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modality: Issues in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface written by Anna Papafragou and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the interplay between grammatical and pragmatic factors in the comprehension of lexically communicated meaning. It uses a case-study, modality, in order to illustrate how the plasticity of lexically conveyed information can be accounted for without assuming semantic polysemy. The author's approach to the semantics and pragmatics of the English modal verbs is developed within the relevance-theoretic framework of communication.

Author : Daisuke Bekki
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303160878X
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics written by Daisuke Bekki and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: