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Quantity Implicatures
Author | : Bart Geurts |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2010-12-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781139493260 |
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In recent years, quantity implicatures - a type of pragmatic inference - have been widely debated in linguistics, philosophy, and psychology, and have been subject to an enormous variety of analyses, ranging from lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic, to various hybrid accounts. In this first book-length discussion of the topic, Bart Geurts presents a theory of quantity implicatures that is resolutely pragmatic, arguing that the orthodox Gricean approach to conversational implicature is capable of accounting for all the standard cases of quantity implicature, and more. He shows how the theory deals with free-choice inferences as merely a garden variety of quantity implicatures, and gives an in-depth treatment of so-called 'embedded implicatures'. Moreover, as well as offering a comprehensive theory of quantity implicatures, he also takes into account experimental data and processing issues. Original and pioneering, and avoiding technical terminology, this insightful study will be invaluable to linguists, philosophers, and experimental psychologists alike.
Pragmatics
Author | : Stephen C. Levinson |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1983-06-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521294142 |
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An integrative and lucid analysis of central topics in the field of linguistic pragmatics deixis, implicature, presupposition, speed acts, and conversational structure.
Quantity Implicatures
Author | : Bart Geurts |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2014-07-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107641926 |
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In recent years, quantity implicatures - a type of pragmatic inference - have been widely debated in linguistics, philosophy, and psychology, and have been subject to an enormous variety of analyses, ranging from lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic, to various hybrid accounts. In this first book-length discussion of the topic, Bart Geurts presents a theory of quantity implicatures that is resolutely pragmatic, arguing that the orthodox Gricean approach to conversational implicature is capable of accounting for all the standard cases of quantity implicature, and more. He shows how the theory deals with free-choice inferences as merely a garden variety of quantity implicatures, and gives an in-depth treatment of so-called 'embedded implicatures'. Moreover, as well as offering a comprehensive theory of quantity implicatures, he also takes into account experimental data and processing issues. Original and pioneering, and avoiding technical terminology, this insightful study will be invaluable to linguists, philosophers, and experimental psychologists alike.
Formal approaches to number in Slavic and beyond
Author | : Mojmír Dočekal,Marcin Wągiel |
Publsiher | : Language Science Press |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783961103140 |
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The goal of this collective monograph is to explore the relationship between the cognitive notion of number and various grammatical devices expressing this concept in natural language with a special focus on Slavic. The book aims at investigating different morphosyntactic and semantic categories including plurality and number-marking, individuation and countability, cumulativity, distributivity and collectivity, numerals, numeral modifiers and classifiers, as well as other quantifiers. It gathers 19 contributions tackling the main themes from different theoretical and methodological perspectives in order to contribute to our understanding of cross-linguistic patterns both in Slavic and non-Slavic languages.
Implicatures in Discourse
Author | : Sarah E. Blackwell |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1588112799 |
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"Implicatures in Discourse" examines Spanish conversations and oral narratives in order to seek support for a pragmatic theory of anaphora. Blackwell argues that the use of anaphoric expressions may be considered conversational implicatures that give rise to inferences of coreference and non-coreference. Her analysis shows how speakers abide by Levinson's 'neo-Gricean' principles of Quantity, Informativeness, and Manner, but that grammatical, semantic, cognitive, and pragmatic constraints interact with the neo-Gricean principles, influencing anaphora use and interpretation. The study also reveals how mutual knowledge, including familiarity with Spanish social and cultural norms, enables interlocutors to use and comprehend minimal referring expressions, which cultural outsiders may not be able to interpret. While drawing on earlier work on anaphora and reference, this book offers a fresh look at discourse anaphora, and sheds light on the ways in which speakers felicitously use and interpret anaphoric expressions in a variety of communicative contexts.
The Semantics of Evaluativity
Author | : Jessica Rett |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780199602483 |
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This book focuses on the semantic phenomenon of evaluativity in sentences such as John is tall and its consequences across constructions. It proposes an account based on assumptions that speakers and hearers make about the relationship between the simplicity of a situation and the simplicity of the language used to describe that situation
Pragmatic Literary Stylistics
Author | : S. Chapman,B. Clark |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2014-09-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781137023278 |
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In considering the ways in which current theories of language in use and communicative processes are applied to the analysis, interpretation and definition of literary texts, this book sets an agenda for the future of pragmatic literary stylistics and provides a foundation for future research and debate.
Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang s Eulogy of the Prophet Muhammad
Author | : Abdul Karim Bangura |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2022-09-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781793623379 |
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The book engages in a multidisciplanary analysis of the Hongwu Emperor's eulogy to Prophet Muhammad and Islam to better illuminate the interaction between China and Islam.