Where semantics meets pragmatics /

Integrates semantic and pragmatic facts into a single theory, and attempts to design and corroborate an account of meaning and use that would be compatible with other aspects of human behaviour. This reference is useful for scholars and students interested in the vibrant discipline of semantics-prag...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: International Workshop on Current Research in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface Michigan State University
Otros Autores: Heusinger, Klaus von, Turner, Ken, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2006.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; v. 16.
Temas:
Semantics (Philosophy) > Congresses.
Pragmatics > Congresses.
Sémantique (Philosophie) > Congrès.
Pragmatique > Congrès.
PHILOSOPHY > Language.
Pragmatics.
Semantics (Philosophy)
Conference papers and proceedings.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • Workshop picture
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • (By way of an) Introduction: A first dialogue on the semantics-pragmatics interface
  • SEMANTICS
  • PRAGMATICS INTERFACE
  • The border wars: A neo-Gricean perspective
  • A 'just that' lexical meaning for most
  • PRAGMATICS AND NOMINAL REFERENCE
  • How to deny a presupposition
  • Type shifting of entities in discourse
  • The hidden path of semantic content within pragmatic context: A frequency study of the definite article the
  • Referential expressions and the syntax-semantics ( -pragmatics) interface
  • BARE NOUNS AND GENERICS
  • General number and the semantics and pragmatics of indefinite bare nouns in Mandarin Chinese
  • Tolerating exceptions with 'descriptive' and 'in virtue of generics: Two types of modality and reduced vagueness
  • CONTEXT AND QUANTIFICATION
  • Binding symmetries and nominal dualities
  • Superlative quantifiers and the dynamics of context dependence
  • Information dependency in quantificational subordination
  • INFORMATION STRUCTURE AND UNDERSPECIFICATION
  • Semantic underspecification and the interpretation of copular clauses in English
  • Mapping VPs to restrictors: Anti-Diesing effects in Mandarin Chinese
  • Contrastive topic/focus and polarity in discourse
  • Implicating and focusing on lexically underspecified information
  • MOOD AND INTENSIONALITY
  • Mood, propositional attitude and metarepresentation in Spanish
  • Futurity in default semantics
  • Temporal reference inside and outside propositional attitudes
  • Index
  • Last Page.

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