Something Out Of Nothing The Semantics And Pragmatics Of Implicit Quantification

Author : Ariel Cohen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004432590
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Something out of Nothing: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Implicit Quantification written by Ariel Cohen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Ariel Cohen makes the novel proposal that an implicit quantifier isn’t simply an empty category, but is generated by well-defined reinterpretation mechanisms. He demonstrates how this theory naturally accounts for puzzling properties of implicit quantification.

Author : Wesley M. Jacobsen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614512078
Total Pages : 887 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Japanese Semantics and Pragmatics written by Wesley M. Jacobsen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 887 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume on Semantics and Pragmatics presents a collection of studies on linguistic meaning in Japanese, either as conventionally encoded in linguistic form (the field of semantics) or as generated by the interaction of form with context (the field of pragmatics), representing a range of ideas and approaches that are currently most influentialin these fields. The studies are organized around a model that has long currency in traditional Japanese grammar, whereby the linguistic clause consists of a multiply nested structure centered in a propositional core of objective meaning around which forms are deployed that express progressively more subjective meaning as one moves away from the core toward the periphery of the clause. The volume seeks to achieve a balance in highlighting both insights that semantic and pragmatic theory has to offer to the study of Japanese as a particular language and, conversely, contributions that Japanese has to make to semantic and pragmatic theory in areas of meaning that are either uniquely encoded, or encoded to a higher degree of specificity, in Japanese by comparison to other languages, such as conditional forms, forms expressing varying types of speaker modality, and social deixis.

Author : Kasia M. Jaszczolt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108499651
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semantics, Pragmatics, Philosophy written by Kasia M. Jaszczolt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy, this is a guide on how to think about meaning like a linguist and philosopher.

Author : Claudia Maienborn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110253380
Total Pages : 943 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semantics. Volume 3 written by Claudia Maienborn and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 943 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "SEMANTICS (MAIENBORN ET AL.) BD. 33.3 HSK E-BOOK".

Author : Claudia Maienborn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110589842
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semantics - Interfaces written by Claudia Maienborn and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the exciting research where semantics meets morphology, syntax and pragmatics. In this book, leading researchers use in-depth articles to explain a wide range of topics at these interfaces, including the semantics of intonation, inflection, compounding, argument structure, type shifting, compositionality, implicature, context dependence, deixis and presupposition. Now in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the highly cited material in this book is an ideal starting point for anyone interested in semantics where it crosses over with other dimensions of grammar.

Author : Alessandro Capone
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319303856
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pragmatics and Law written by Alessandro Capone and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume highlights important aspects of the complex relationship between common language and legal practice. It hosts an interdisciplinary discussion between cognitive science, philosophy of language and philosophy of law, in which an international group of authors aims to promote, enrich and refine this new debate. Philosophers of law have always shown a keen interest in cognitive science and philosophy of language in order to find tools to solve their problems: recently this interest was reciprocated and scholars from cognitive science and philosophy of language now look to the law as a testing ground for their theses. Using the most sophisticated tools available to pragmatics, sociolinguistics, cognitive sciences and legal theory, an interdisciplinary, international group of authors address questions like: Does legal interpretation differ from ordinary understanding? Is the common pragmatic apparatus appropriate to legal practice? What can pragmatics teach about the concept of law and pervasive legal phenomena such as testimony or legal disagreements?

Author : Gerhard Preyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019250911X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Semantics and Pragmatics written by Gerhard Preyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of meaning in language embraces a diverse range of problems and methods. Philosophers think through the relationship between language and the world; linguists document speakers' knowledge of meaning; psychologists investigate the mechanisms of understanding and production. Up through the early 2000s, these investigations were generally compartmentalized: indeed, researchers often regarded both the subject-matter and the methods of other disciplines with skepticism. Since then, however, there has been a sea change in the field, enabling researchers increasingly to synthesize the perspectives of philosophy, linguistics and psychology and to energize all the fields with rich new intellectual perspectives that facilitate meaningful interchange. The time is right for a broader exploration and reflection on the status and problems of semantics as an interdisciplinary enterprise, in light of a decade of challenging and successful research in this area. Taking as its starting-point Lepore and Stone's 2014 book Imagination and Convention, this volume aims to reconcile different methodological perspectives while refocusing semanticists on new problems where integrative work will find the broadest and most receptive audience.

Author : Louise Cummings
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135214573
Total Pages : 675 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Pragmatics Encyclopedia written by Louise Cummings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : George Ritzer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
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Download or read book The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology: Q-SE written by George Ritzer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carol A. Kates
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501752189
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pragmatics and Semantics written by Carol A. Kates and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the nature of communicative competence? Carol Kates addresses this crucial linguistic question, examining and finally rejecting the rationalistic theory proposed by Noam Chomsky and elaborated by Jerrold J. Katz, among others. She sets forth three reasons why the rationalistic model shoudl be rejected: (1) it has not been supported by empirical tests; (2) it cannot accommodate the pragmatic relation between speaker and sign; and (3) the theory of universal grammar carries with it unacceptable metaphysical implications unless it is interpreted in light of empiricism. Kates proposes an empiricist model in place of the rationalistic theory—a model that, in her view, is more consistent with recent findings in linguistics and psycholinguistics. In attempting to clarify the nature of utterance meaning, Kates develops theoretical perspectives on phenomenological empiricism and produces an account of reference and intentionality directly relevant to empiricaly based theories of speaking and understanding. Among the major topics addressed in the book are transformational-generative and universal grammer, cognitive theories of language acquisition, pragmatic structure, predication and topic-comment structure, and empiricism and the philosophical problem of universals. An innovative and probing work, Pragmatics and Semantics will be welcomed by philosophers, linguists, and psycholinguists.