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In pragmatics, it is widely accepted that the overall meaning of an utterance performed as part of a verbal interchange is underdetermined by the meaning of the sentence uttered. Speaker meaning has to be considered as a complex utterance level combining semantic knowledge and context-driven, pragma...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2013] ©2013 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Mouton series in pragmatics [msp];
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781614512776 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9781614512776.jpg |
| Summary: |
In pragmatics, it is widely accepted that the overall meaning of an utterance performed as part of a verbal interchange is underdetermined by the meaning of the sentence uttered. Speaker meaning has to be considered as a complex utterance level combining semantic knowledge and context-driven, pragmatic information as an integrated whole. The focus of this book is on the nature, function, and acquisition of pragmatic inferencing strategies. |
| Carrier Form: |
1 online resource(vi,340pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9781614512776 |
| Index Number: | P99 |
| CLC: | H030 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Beyond Words -- Short introduction: General concepts / Communication in the narrower and broader sense / Pragmatics in Optimality Theory / Short introduction: Acquiring inferential abilities / Word learning by exclusion pragmatics, logic and processing / Children s knowledge of scales in the acquisition of almost / Relevance inferences in young children: 3-year-olds understand a speaker s indirectly expressed social intention / Early pragmatics with words / Short introduction: Grammar, meaning, and enrichment / Procedures and prosody: Weak encoding and weak communication / Pragmatic templates and free enrichment / Pragmatic enrichment in adjectival passives: the case of the post state reading / Pragmatic inferencing and expert knowledge / Short introduction: Constraints, memes, and constructions / Empirical and theoretical evidence for a model of quantifier production / Constructions as memes Interactional function as cultural convention beyond the words / A pragmatic Pandora s box: Regularities and defaults in pragmatics / Contributors to the volume -- Index. |