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Intonation and meaning /
This book examines the interplay between prosody-stress, phrasing, and melody-and interpretation-felicity in discourse, inferences, and emphasis. It presents the main phenomena involved, and introduces current formal analyses of prosodic structure, relevant aspects of discourse structure, intonation...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Oxford surveys in semantics and pragmatics.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Intonation and Meaning; Copyright; Contents; General Preface; Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1: Prominence, accent, focus; 1.1 Prominence, accent (and stress); 1.1.1 Perceived prominence and pitch accenting; 1.1.2 The nuclear pitch accent; 1.2 Default intonation; 1.2.1 Default accenting; 1.2.2 Predicting default accenting: a sketch; 1.3 Focus; 1.3.1 When default accenting is not normal accenting; 1.3.2 Focus realization and focus projection; 1.3.3 Introducing information structure; 1.4 Summary and outlook; 2: Focus and givenness in flexible accent languages; 2.1 Givenness.
- 2.2 Focus and background; 2.2.1 F-alternatives; 2.2.2 Focus and accenting; 2.2.3 Focus semantics, first inspection; 2.3 A grammar of focus and givenness; 2.3.1 Representation; 2.3.2 Interpretation; 2.3.3 Realization; 2.3.4 Enforcement; 2.4 Arguments for keeping focussing and givenness separate; 2.4.1 Partially given foci: given elements within a broader focus; 2.4.2 Completely given foci; 2.5 Larger foci and focus ambiguities; 2.5.1 Focus ambiguity; 2.5.2 Focus sizes: broad, wide, narrow; 2.5.3 Focus and ellipsis; 2.5.4 Sentential contrastive focus?; 2.6 Chapter summary.
- 3: Focus and givenness theories; 3.1 Alternative Semantics: Rooth (1985, 1992b); 3.1.1 Composing alternatives; 3.1.2 The Squiggle Theory; 3.1.3 Notable properties; 3.1.4 Rooth (1992a): bridging by entailment; 3.1.5 Desiderata; 3.2 F/FOC-Theory: Selkirk (1984, 1995b); 3.2.1 Notable properties; 3.2.2 Problems; 3.3 GIVENness Theory: Schwarzschild (1999); 3.3.1 The GIVEN relation; 3.3.2 AVOIDF; 3.3.3 Notable properties; 3.3.4 Open ends; 3.4 Chapter summary; 3.4.1 Comparing F-conditions; 3.4.2 Comparing F-/G-rel; 3.4.3 Comparison of the theories; 3.5 Appendix: definitions and technical details.
- 3.5.1 Focus Semantic Values; 3.5.2 Existential closure; 3.5.3 Existential focus closure; 4: More on focus/givenness representation; 4.1 Back to F-marking plus G-Marking; 4.2 Using stacked F-domains to replace G-marking; 4.3 Interim summary; 4.4 Focus projection rules; 4.4.1 The idea; 4.4.2 Integration; 4.4.3 F-Projection Rules revisited; 4.4.4 Bottom up and top down; 4.4.5 Competition-based analyses of focus projection; 4.5 Lesser studied focus configuration; 4.5.1 Discontinuous foci and multiple foci; 4.5.2 Multiple foci; 4.5.3 Focus in questions.
- 5: More on the semantics of focus and givenness; 5.1 Givenness; 5.1.1 Salient, not familiar; 5.1.2 Salient, not previously mentioned; 5.1.3 Salient, not presupposed; 5.2 Focussing; 5.2.1 No truth conditions for focussing; 5.2.2 Focus-mentalism; 5.3 Contrast; 5.3.1 Deaccenting requires local contrast; 5.3.2 Wagner (2012b); 5.3.3 On the notion of contrast; 5.3.4 Where and when is focus contrastive?; 5.4 Open ends in Alternative Semantics; 5.4.1 Focus on semantic functions; 5.4.2 Givenness distributivity; 5.4.3 Focus/background compared to new/given once more.