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Author Eckardt, Regine

Title The semantics of free indirect discourse : how texts allow us to mind-read and eavesdrop / by Regine Eckardt
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

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Series Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; Volume 31
Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; Volume 31.
Contents Preface; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.1. The Challenge of Free Indirect Discourse; 1.2. Macro and Micro Level Indicators; 1.3. A Little Bit of Grammar; 1.4. Two Voices; 1.5. Preview; Chapter 2. The Contexts of Free Indirect Discourse; 2.1. Kaplan on Context; 2.2. Interpreting Free Indirect Discourse; 2.3. Earlier Formal Approaches to Free Indirect Discourse; 2.4. Where Does Internal Context Come From?; 2.5. Advanced Issues: Recursion; 2.6. Summary; Chapter 3. Story Update; 3.1. Information as Common Ground Update; 3.2. Narration and Story Update
3.3. Updates by Assertion and Commentary3.4. Advanced Issues: Expressive Content in Modal Contexts; 3.5. Summary; Chapter 4. Tense and Aspect; 4.1. Events, Tense, and Aspect; 4.2. Forcing Free Indirect Discourse; 4.3. Discourse and Free Indirect Discourse; 4.4. Advanced Issues: Interface Considerations and Exceptions; 4.5. Summary; Chapter 5. Particles in Free Indirect Discourse; 5.1. Speaker as a Parameter in Contexts of Thought; 5.2. Speaker's Attitude: leider; 5.3. Speaker and Common Ground: ja; 5.4. Speaker's Agenda: also + Focus; 5.5. Speaker's Epistemic Background: wohl
5.6. Speaker's Objections: doch5.7. Advanced Issues: How Temporal and Speaker Oriented Indexicals Interact; 5.8. Summary; Chapter 6. Exclamatives; 6.1. Exclamatives in Direct and Indirect Discourse; 6.2. Rett's Theory of Exclamatives; 6.3. The Temporal Structure of Exclamatives; 6.4. Exclamatives, Times, and Tensed Degrees; 6.5. Derived Reference to Gradable Post-States; 6.6. Advanced Issues: Dead Ends in the Analysis of Exclamatives; 6.7. Summary; Chapter 7. Predecessors and Alternatives; 7.1. Banfield; 7.2. Schlenker; 7.3. Sharvit; 7.4. Quotation Theories; Chapter 8. More Tenses, More Moods
8.1. The Konjunktiv in Reported Speech and Thought8.2. Advanced Issues: Fabricius-Hansen and Sæbø; 8.3. Free Indirect Speech in the Historical Present; Chapter 9. Forbidden in Shifted Speech; 9.1. Banned from Indirect Discourse; 9.2. Vocatives; 9.3. Imperatives; 9.4. Summary; Chapter 10. Final Panorama; 10.1. Looking Back; 10.2. New Horizons; 10.3. Linguistics, Literature, and the Challenge of Fiction; Appendix. A Summary of Formal Proposals; References; Index
Summary In this monograph, Regine Eckardt develops a comprehensive theory of free indirect discourse, analysing speaker-oriented and other context-dependent words in terms of formal semantics and pragmatics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Indirect discourse.
Semantics, Comparative.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase.
Cognitive grammar.
Psycholinguistics.
psycholinguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
Cognitive grammar
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Indirect discourse
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase
Psycholinguistics
Semantics, Comparative
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004266735
9004266739
1322348634
9781322348636