Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition – serie

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Accentuation and Interpretation
AvH. Schmitz
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
633 kr
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Develops a highly original theory of accentuation in which accentuation serves the mere pragmatic function of making utterances well comprehensible. Semantic effects of accentuation are explained as epiphenomena of pragmatic accentuation. The theory is formally elaborated in a model-theoretic framework and experimentally justified.
Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics
AvU. Sauerland,P. Stateva
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
1 094 kr
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All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the contributors to this volume investigate three mental mechanisms, widely assumed to underlie this ability: compositional semantics, implicature computation and presupposition computation.
Language, Thought and Reference
AvG. Powell
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
567 kr
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How should we analyse the meaning of proper names, indexicals, demonstratives and definite descriptions? What relation do such expressions stand to the objects they designate or to mental representations of those objects? George Powell casts new light on these and other questions by approaching them from within a cognitive framework.
Vagueness and Language Use
AvP. Égré,N. Klinedinst
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
567 kr
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This volume brings together twelve papers by linguists and philosophers contributing novel empirical and formal considerations to theorizing about vagueness. Three main issues are addressed: gradable expressions and comparison, the semantics of degree adverbs and intensifiers (such as 'clearly'), and ways of evading the sorites paradox.
Alternatives in Semantics
AvA. Falaus
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
567 kr
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This volume offers a survey of the use of alternatives in semantics and pragmatics, and an overview of current approaches and applications of alternative-based semantics, from both theoretical and experimental perspectives.
Explicit Communication
Robyn Carston's Pragmatics
AvEsther Soria, Belén,Romerom. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
567 kr
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This collection brings about a current interdisciplinary debate on explicit communication. With Robyn Carston's pragmatics at the core of the discussion, special attention is drawn to linguistic under-determinacy, the explicit/implicit divide and also to the construction or recruitment of concepts in on-line utterance comprehension.
Assertion
AvM. Jary
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
567 kr
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Assertion is a term frequently used in linguistics and philosophy but rarely defined. This in-depth study surveys and synthesizes a range of philosophical, linguistic and psychological literature on the topic, and then presents a detailed account of the cognitive processes involved in the interpretation of assertions.
Semantics and Pragmatics
From Experiment to Theory
AvR. Breheny,Uli Sauerland
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
1 127 kr
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This volume comprises thirteen original research papers and three overview papers presenting new work using a number of experimental techniques from psycho- and neurolinguistics in the three key areas of current semantics and pragmatics: implicature, negation and presupposition.
Meaning and Analysis: New Essays on Grice
AvRichard Breheny,K. Petrus
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
567 kr
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The anthology 'Meaning and Analysis' addresses the key topics of H. Paul Grice's philosophy of language, such as rationality, non-natural meaning, communicative actions, conversational implicatures, the semantics-pragmatics distinction and recent debates concerning minimalist versus contextualist semantics.
Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance
AvC. Iten
Inbunden, Engelska, 2005
1 127 kr
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The main argument of this book is that the notion of truth plays no role in speaker-hearers' interpretation of linguistic utterances and that it is not needed for theoretical accounts of linguistic meaning either. The theoretical argument is developed in the first part, while the second part supports it with cognitive relevance-theoretic, rather than truth-based, analyses of the 'concessive' expressions but, although and even if .
Pragmatic Literary Stylistics
AvS. Chapman,B. Clark
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
633 kr
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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.
Pragmatics, Semantics and the Case of Scalar Implicatures
AvKenneth A. Loparo,Salvatore Pistoia Redam. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
1 127 kr
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This book is an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical linguistics in the last 20 years. Leading theorists in the field offer an up-to-date presentation of the subject in a way that will help readers to orient themselves in the vast literature on the topic.
Truth without Predication
The Role of Placing in the Existential There-Sentence
AvR. Szekely
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
567 kr
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This book contains an original analysis of the existential there-sentence from a philosophical-linguistic perspective. At its core is the claim that there-sentences' form is distinct from that of ordinary subject–predicate sentences, and that this fundamental difference explains the construction's unusual grammatical and discourse properties.
Presuppositions and Cognitive Processes
Understanding the Information Taken for Granted
AvFilippo Domaneschi
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
605 kr
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This book breaks new ground towards an understanding of the mental processes involved in presupposition, the comprehension of information taken for granted. Various psycholinguistic experiments are discussed to support the idea that involved in ordinary language comprehension are complex and demanding cognitive processes. The author demonstrates that these processes exist not only at the explicit level of an utterance but also at a deeper level of computing, where the background information taken for granted as already known and shared between interlocutors is processed. The author shows that experimental research can suggest new theoretical models for presupposition, thus this book will be of interest to researchers and students of psycholinguistics, the philosophy of language and experimental pragmatics.
Accentuation and Interpretation
AvH. Schmitz
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
636 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Develops a highly original theory of accentuation in which accentuation serves the mere pragmatic function of making utterances well comprehensible. Semantic effects of accentuation are explained as epiphenomena of pragmatic accentuation. The theory is formally elaborated in a model-theoretic framework and experimentally justified.
Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics
AvU. Sauerland,P. Stateva
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
1 098 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the contributors to this volume investigate three mental mechanisms, widely assumed to underlie this ability: compositional semantics, implicature computation and presupposition computation.
Language, Thought and Reference
AvG. Powell
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
567 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
How should we analyse the meaning of proper names, indexicals, demonstratives and definite descriptions? What relation do such expressions stand to the objects they designate or to mental representations of those objects? George Powell casts new light on these and other questions by approaching them from within a cognitive framework.
Vagueness and Language Use
AvP. Égré,N. Klinedinst
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
551 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This volume brings together twelve papers by linguists and philosophers contributing novel empirical and formal considerations to theorizing about vagueness. Three main issues are addressed: gradable expressions and comparison, the semantics of degree adverbs and intensifiers (such as 'clearly'), and ways of evading the sorites paradox.
Explicit Communication
Robyn Carston's Pragmatics
AvB. Soria,E. Romero
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
553 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This collection brings about a current interdisciplinary debate on explicit communication. With Robyn Carston's pragmatics at the core of the discussion, special attention is drawn to linguistic under-determinacy, the explicit/implicit divide and also to the construction or recruitment of concepts in on-line utterance comprehension.
Assertion
AvM. Jary
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
553 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Assertion is a term frequently used in linguistics and philosophy but rarely defined. This in-depth study surveys and synthesizes a range of philosophical, linguistic and psychological literature on the topic, and then presents a detailed account of the cognitive processes involved in the interpretation of assertions.
Meaning and Analysis: New Essays on Grice
AvRichard Breheny,K. Petrus
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
607 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
The anthology 'Meaning and Analysis' addresses the key topics of H. Paul Grice's philosophy of language, such as rationality, non-natural meaning, communicative actions, conversational implicatures, the semantics-pragmatics distinction and recent debates concerning minimalist versus contextualist semantics.
Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance
AvC. Iten,Richard Breheny
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
1 127 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
The main argument of this book is that the notion of truth plays no role in speaker-hearers' interpretation of linguistic utterances and that it is not needed for theoretical accounts of linguistic meaning either. The theoretical argument is developed in the first part, while the second part supports it with cognitive relevance-theoretic, rather than truth-based, analyses of the 'concessive' expressions but, although and even if .
Pragmatic Literary Stylistics
AvS. Chapman,B. Clark
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
633 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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.
Pragmatics, Semantics and the Case of Scalar Implicatures
AvSalvatore Pistoia Reda,Kenneth A. Loparom. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
1 127 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book is an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical linguistics in the last 20 years. Leading theorists in the field offer an up-to-date presentation of the subject in a way that will help readers to orient themselves in the vast literature on the topic.
Truth without Predication
The Role of Placing in the Existential There-Sentence
AvR. Szekely
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
569 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book contains an original analysis of the existential there-sentence from a philosophical-linguistic perspective. At its core is the claim that there-sentences' form is distinct from that of ordinary subject–predicate sentences, and that this fundamental difference explains the construction's unusual grammatical and discourse properties.
Optimality Theory and Pragmatics
AvReinhard Blutner,Anne Bezuidenhoutm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
553 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Ten leading scholars provide exacting research results and a reliable and accessible introduction to the new field of optimality theoretic pragmatics. The book includes a general introduction that overviews the foundations of this new research paradigm. The book is intended to satisfy the needs of students and professional researchers interested in pragmatics and optimality theory, and will be of particular interest to those exploring the interfaces of formal pragmatics with grammar, semantics, philosophy of language, information theory and cognitive psychology.
Game Theory and Pragmatics
AvA. Benz,G. Jägerm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
1 094 kr
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Rooted in Gricean tradition, this book concentrates on game- and decision-theoretic (GDT) approaches to the foundations of pragmatics. An Introduction to GDT, with an overview of GDT pragmatics research to date and its relation to semantics and to Gricean pragmatics is followed by contributions offering a high-level survey of current GDT pragmatics and the field of its applications, demonstrating that this approach provides a sound basis for synchronic and diachronic explanations of language use.
Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages
AvI. Mackenzie
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
567 kr
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The author questions the status quo in Romance linguistics. The Ergative/Unaccusative syntactic approach has been accepted as the orthodox analytical paradigm. He re-examines both the theoretical imperative and the empirical evidence for that approach, drawing on a large amount of new and surprising data from Italian, Spanish, French and Catalan.
Optimality Theory and Pragmatics
AvReinhard Blutner,Anne Bezuidenhoutm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2003
567 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Ten leading scholars provide exacting research results and a reliable and accessible introduction to the new field of optimality theoretic pragmatics. The book includes a general introduction that overviews the foundations of this new research paradigm. The book is intended to satisfy the needs of students and professional researchers interested in pragmatics and optimality theory, and will be of particular interest to those exploring the interfaces of formal pragmatics with grammar, semantics, philosophy of language, information theory and cognitive psychology.
Experimental Pragmatics
AvI. Noveck,D. Sperber
Inbunden, Engelska, 2004
1 094 kr
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How do we understand what we are told, resolve ambiguities, appreciate metaphor and irony, and grasp both explicit and implicit content in verbal communication? This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to an exciting new field in which models of language and meaning are tested and compared using techniques from psycholinguistics.

Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition – serie

Accentuation and Interpretation

Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics

Language, Thought and Reference

Vagueness and Language Use

Alternatives in Semantics

Explicit Communication

Assertion

Semantics and Pragmatics

Meaning and Analysis: New Essays on Grice

Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance

Pragmatic Literary Stylistics

Pragmatics, Semantics and the Case of Scalar Implicatures

Truth without Predication

Presuppositions and Cognitive Processes

Accentuation and Interpretation

Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics

Language, Thought and Reference

Vagueness and Language Use

Explicit Communication

Assertion

Meaning and Analysis: New Essays on Grice

Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance

Pragmatic Literary Stylistics

Pragmatics, Semantics and the Case of Scalar Implicatures

Truth without Predication

Optimality Theory and Pragmatics

Game Theory and Pragmatics

Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages

Optimality Theory and Pragmatics

Experimental Pragmatics