Making Semantics Pragmatic.
This collection of especially invited papers aims to explore the nature of the semantics/pragmatics interface by examining the extent to which the analysis of certain expressions or constructions can be pragmaticised. As the title of the collection implicates, it is anticipated that the theoretical...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bradford :
Emerald Group Pub.,
2011.
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| Series: | Current Research in the Semantics/pragmatics Interface, 24.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Making Semantics Pragmatic; Copyright Page; Contents; 1 Introduction: Preliminary 'sketches of landscapes'; 2 Whatever Happened to Meaning? Remarks on Contextualisms and Propositionalisms; 3 What Refers? How?; 4 Bearers of Truth and the Unsaid; 5 Towards a Radically Pragmatic Theory of If-Conditionals; 6 French Relational Words, Context Sensitivity and Implicit Arguments; 7 Mutual Manifestness and the Pragmatic Marker Ne in Mandarin Chinese; 8 The Use-Theory of Meaning and the Rules of Our Language Games; 9 Say What? A Game-Theoretic Approach to the Said/Implicated Distinction.