| Description |
1 online resource (328 pages) |
| Series |
Explorations in Semantics |
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Explorations in semantics.
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| Contents |
Sense and Sensitivity; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Intonation and Meaning; Chapter 3: Three Degrees of Association: Quasi, Free, and Conventional; Chapter 4: Compositional Analysis of Focus; Chapter 5: Pragmatic Explanations of Focus; Chapter 6: Soft Focus: Association with Reduced Material; Chapter 7: Lacking Focus: Extraction and Ellipsis; Chapter 8: Monotonicity and Presupposition; Chapter 9: Exclusives: Facts and History; Chapter 10: Exclusives: a Discourse Account; Chapter 11: Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Sense and Sensitivity advances a novel research proposal in the nascent field of formal pragmatics, exploring in detail the semantics and pragmatics of focus in natural language discourse. The authors develop a new account of focus sensitivity, and show that what has hitherto been regarded as a uniform phenomenon in fact results from three different mechanisms. The book.:.; Makes a major contribution to ongoing research in the area of focus sensitivity a field exploring interactions between sound and meaning, specifically the dependency some words have on the effects of focus, such as " |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Clark, Brady Z
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| ISBN |
9781444301335 |
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1444301330 |
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