Discourse Pragmatics and Semantic Categorization

Discourse Pragmatics and Semantic Categorization

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  • Author: Ellen Contini-Morava
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 311088903X
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 220

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Discourse and the Continuity of Reference

Discourse and the Continuity of Reference

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  • Author: Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
  • ISBN: 3110808692
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 369


From Cognitive Semantics to Lexical Pragmatics

From Cognitive Semantics to Lexical Pragmatics

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  • Author: Kerstin Fischer
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
  • ISBN: 9783110168761
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 392

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Relevance and Linguistic Meaning

Relevance and Linguistic Meaning

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  • Author: Diane Blakemore
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1139437305
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 200

The importance of discourse markers (words like 'so', 'however', and 'well') lies in the theoretical questions they raise about the nature of discourse and the relationship between linguistic meaning and context. They are regarded as being central to semantics because they raise problems for standard theories of meaning, and to pragmatics because they seem to play a role in the way discourse is understood. In this new and important study, Diane Blakemore argues that attempts to analyse these expressions within standard semantic frameworks raise even more problems, while their analysis as expressions that link segments of discourse has led to an unproductive and confusing exercise in classification. She concludes that the exercise in classification that has dominated discourse marker research should be replaced by the investigation of the way in which linguistic expressions contribute to the inferential processes involved in utterance understanding.


Discourse Markers and Modal Particles

Discourse Markers and Modal Particles

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  • Author: Liesbeth Degand
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027271224
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 239

Discourse markers and modal particles are fuzzy linguistic categories that are difficult to describe. The contributions in this volume go beyond this statement. They discuss the intersection between modal particles and discourse markers and examine whether or not it is possible to draw a line between these two types of linguistic expressions. On the basis of new synchronic and diachronic data, from speech and writing, from European and Asian languages or cross-linguistically, the authors answer the question whether discourse markers and modal particles are distinct categories, whether they form a cline, or whether modal particles are a subcategory of discourse markers. This common question shows up throughout all chapters, which makes the book to a coherent whole. By disentangling the complexity of categorizing multifunctional expressions, this book also sheds new light on the processes of meaning extension. The traditional discourse and modal functions are complemented by interactional and textual ones. A must read for functional linguists.


Building Categories in Interaction

Building Categories in Interaction

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  • Author: Caterina Mauri
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 9027258996
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 467

This book addresses the topic of linguistic categorization from a novel perspective. While most of the early research has focused on how linguistic systems reflect some pre-existing ways of categorizing experience, the contributions included in this volume seek to understand how linguistic resources of various nature (prosodic cues, affixes, constructions, discourse markers, ...) can be ‘put to work’ in order to actively build categories in discourse and in interaction, to achieve social goals. This question is addressed in different ways by researchers from different subfields of linguistics, including psycholinguistics, conversation analysis, linguistic typology and discourse pragmatics, and a major point of innovation is represented in fact by the interdisciplinary nature of the volume and in the systematic search for converging evidence.


Discourse and Grammar

Discourse and Grammar

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  • Author: Günther Grewendorf
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
  • ISBN: 1614511608
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 346

Bringing together papers from various subfields of theoretical linguistics, this volume gives a representative glimpse of current research on form and function in grammar. Its overarching topic is as old as it is hot: the relation between the major clause types as determined in syntax, and their canonical or idiosyncratic roles in discourse as characterized in pragmatic terms. Though none of the papers addresses this topic in its full breadth, they can all be seen to make their specific contributions to it, scrutinizing the pertinent aspects of the grammatical interfaces and elaborating detailed case studies. The first part of this collection comprises three papers (by Asher, Portner, and van Rooy & Franke) devoted to the semantics/pragmatics interface. The second part, with contributions by Rizzi, Saito, and Belletti, deals with the question of how the constitution of sentence types can be related to properties of functional categories in the clausal periphery.The last four papers (Bošković, van Riemsdijk, Bauke & Roeper, Williams) concern the interaction of lexical elements and clausal functional categories, revealing unexpected parallels between clause structure and the internal structure, particularly in lexical categories.


Current Trends in Diachronic Semantics and Pragmatics

Current Trends in Diachronic Semantics and Pragmatics

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  • Author: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004253211
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 312

Focuses on semantic and pragmatic change, its causes and mechanisms. This work gathers the papers that offer studies of language-specific cases of meaning change in particular notional domains. It includes case-studies covering central semantic domains such as concession, evidentiality, modality, negation, scalarity, subjectivity, and temporality.


Mind, Code and Context

Mind, Code and Context

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  • Author: T. Givon
  • Publisher: Psychology Press
  • ISBN: 1317768019
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 450

Scholars concerned with the phenomenon of mind have searched through history for a principled yet non-reductionist approach to the study of knowledge, communication, and behavior. Pragmatics has been a recurrent theme in Western epistemology, tracing itself back from pre-Socratic dialectics and Aristotle's bio- functionalism, all the way to Wittgenstein's content-dependent semantics. This book's treatment of pragmatics as an analytic method focuses on the central role of context in determining the perception, organization, and communication of experience. As a bioadaptive strategy, pragmatics straddles the middle ground between absolute categories and the non-discrete gradation of experience, reflecting closely the organism's own evolutionary compromises. In parallel, pragmatic reasoning can be shown to play a pivotal role in the process of empirical science, through the selection of relevant facts, the abduction of likely hypotheses, and the construction of non-trivial explanations. In this volume, Professor Givon offers pragmatics as both an analytic method and a strategic intellectual framework. He points out its relevance to our understanding of traditional problems in philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, cognitive psychology, neuro-biology, and evolution. Finally, the application of pragmatics to the study of the mind and behavior constitutes an implicit challenge to the current tenets of artificial intelligence.


Categorization in Discourse and Grammar

Categorization in Discourse and Grammar

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  • Author: Małgorzata Fabiszak
  • Publisher: Lodz Studies in Language
  • ISBN: 9783631664247
  • Category : Categorization (Linguistics)
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

This collection of papers focuses on the role of context in the production and comprehension of metaphors in political discourse and the conceptualization of emotions. Two corpus-based studies offer conceptual models of individual words. It also offers cognitive linguistic analyses of passive voice, aspect and phonological categories.