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Beyond Words : Content, Context, and Inference.

In pragmatics, it is widely accepted that the overall meaning of an utterance performed as part of a verbal interchange is underdetermined by the meaning of the sentence uttered. Speaker meaning has to be considered as a complex utterance level combining semantic knowledge and context-driven, pragma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Liedtke, Frank
Otros Autores: Schulze, Cornelia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : De Gruyter, 2013.
Colección:Mouton Series in Pragmatics MSP.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Beyond Words; Section I. General concepts; Short introduction; 1. Communication in the narrower and broader sense. A reconstruction in terms of Sign Theory; 2. Pragmatics in Optimality Theory; Section II. Acquiring inferential abilities; Short introduction; 3. Word learning by exclusion
  • pragmatics, logic and processing; 4. Children's knowledge of scales in the acquisition of almost; 5. Relevance inferences in young children: 3-year-olds' understand a speaker's indirectly expressed social intention; 6. Early pragmatics with words; Section III. Grammar, meaning, and enrichment.
  • Short introduction7. Procedures and prosody: Weak encoding and weak communication; 8. Pragmatic templates and free enrichment; 9. Pragmatic enrichment in adjectival passives: The case of the post state reading; 10. Pragmatic inferencing and expert knowledge; Section IV. Constraints, memes, and constructions; Short introduction; 11. Empirical and theoretical evidence for a model of quantifier production; 12. Construction as memes
  • Interactional function as cultural convention beyond the words; 13. A pragmatic Pandora's box: Regularities and defaults in pragmatics; Contributors to the volume.