| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 329 pages) : illustrations |
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Language, context and cognition ; 14 |
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Language, context, and cognition ; 14.
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| Contents |
1 Introduction; 1.1 The Standard Notions and Their Problems; 1.2 Aim of the Book; 1.3 Plan of the book; 2 Against the Standard Notions of Literal Meaning and Non-literal Meaning; 2.1 Literal Meaning and Context-Independence; 2.1.1 Literal Meaning as Compositional Meaning?; 2.1.2 Literal Meaning as Context-Independent?; 2.1.3 Literal Meaning as Primary to Non-literal Meaning?; 2.2 Non-literal Meaning and Conventionality; 2.2.1 Empirical Evidence; 2.2.2 Theoretical Considerations; 2.3 Consequences for Lexical Meaning; 2.3.1 Problematic Data; 2.3.2 Approaches to Meaning in the Lexicon |
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2.3.2.1 The Maximalist Approach2.3.2.2 The Intermediate Approach; 2.3.3 Semantic Underspecification in the Lexicon; 2.3.3.1 The Minimalist Approach; 2.3.3.2 Ruhl's monosemic approach; 2.3.3.3 A Cognitive Approach; 2.3.3.4 Underspecification and Conventionality; 2.3.3.5 Underspecification and Semantic Relations; 2.3.3.6 More Underspecification in the Lexicon; 2.3.3.7 Underspecification of Semantic Composition; 2.4 Empirical Investigations of Aspects of Semantics; 2.4.1 Polysemy vs. Underspecification in the Lexicon; 2.4.2 Empirical Evidence for Semantic vs. Pragmatic Processing |
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2.5 Why the Standard Notions?2.6 Summary; 3 Utterance Meaning and the Literal/Non-literal Distinction; 3.1 Levels of Meaning; 3.1.1 Grice's Four Types of Meaning; 3.1.2 Bierwisch's Three Levels of Meaning; 3.1.3 Summary; 3.2 The Problem of Characterising the Level of Utterance Meaning; 3.2.1 Explicit/Implicit Meaning; 3.2.1.1 Explicatures; 3.2.1.2 Implicitures; 3.2.2 Unarticulated Constituents vs. Hidden Indexicals; 3.2.3 Minimal Semantic Content and Full Propositionality; 3.2.4 Minimal Proposition vs. Proposition Expressed; 3.3 Summary |
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4 Utterance Meaning and Communicative Sense -- Two Levels or One?4.1 Problematic Phenomena; 4.1.1 Metaphor; 4.1.1.1 Traditional Characterisation and its Problems; 4.1.1.2 Metaphor and The Similarity of Various Types of Meaning; 4.1.1.3 Metaphor and Attributive Categories; 4.1.1.4 Empirical Results Concerning Metaphor Interpretation; 4.1.1.5 Formal approaches to metaphor interpretation; 4.1.1.6 Summary; 4.1.2 Irony; 4.1.2.1 Traditional Characterisation and its Problems; 4.1.2.2 Irony as echoic interpretive use; 4.1.2.3 Irony as a Form of Indirect Negation |
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4.1.2.4 Empirical Results Concerning Irony Interpretation4.1.2.5 Summary; 4.1.3 Conversational Implicatures; 4.1.3.1 Generalised vs. Particularised Conversational Implicature -- Theoretical Approaches; 4.1.3.2 (Mostly) Empirical Evidence Concerning GCIs; 4.1.3.3 Summary; 4.1.4 Speech Acts; 4.2 Differentiating What is Said from What is Meant; 4.2.1 What is Said/What is Meant and Indirect Speech Reports; 4.2.2 Primary vs. Secondary Pragmatic Processes; 4.2.3 What is Said/What is Meant and Distinct Knowledge Systems; 4.3 Summary |
| Summary |
Currently, there is a great number of approaches to the semantics-pragmatics distinction on the market. This book is unique in that it offers a comprehensive overview, comparison and critical evaluation of these approaches. At the same time, it covers a wide range of the key current topics in semantics and pragmatics (e.g., the saying/meaning distinction, minimalism vs. contextualism, (generalised) conversational implicatures) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-324) and index |
| Notes |
5 Varieties of Meaning, Context and the Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction |
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Print version record |
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Semantics, Comparative.
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Pragmatics.
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Discourse analysis
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Speech acts (Linguistics)
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Contrastive linguistics.
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pragmatics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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Contrastive linguistics
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Discourse analysis
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Pragmatics
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Semantics, Comparative
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Speech acts (Linguistics)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783110333411 |
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3110333414 |
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9783110372588 |
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3110372584 |
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