Sense and Sensitivity / Explorations in Semantics (PDF)
How Focus Determines Meaning
(Sprache: Englisch)
Sense and Sensitivity advances a novel research proposal in
the nascent field of formal pragmatics, exploring in detail the
semantics and pragmatics of focus in natural language discourse.
The authors develop a new account of focus sensitivity, and...
the nascent field of formal pragmatics, exploring in detail the
semantics and pragmatics of focus in natural language discourse.
The authors develop a new account of focus sensitivity, and...
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Sense and Sensitivity advances a novel research proposal in
the nascent field of formal pragmatics, exploring in detail the
semantics and pragmatics of focus in natural language discourse.
The authors develop a new account of focus sensitivity, and show
that what has hitherto been regarded as a uniform phenomenon in
fact results from three different mechanisms. The book
* Makes a major contribution to ongoing research in the area of
focus sensitivity - a field exploring interactions between
sound and meaning, specifically the dependency some words have on
the effects of focus, such as "she only LIKES me" (i.e. nothing
deeper) compared to "she only likes ME" (i.e. nobody else)
* Discusses the features of the QFC theory (Quasi association,
Free association, and Conventional association), a new account of
focus implying a tripartite typology of focus-sensitive
expressions
* Presents novel cross-linguistic data on focus and focus
sensitivity that will be relevant across a range of linguistic
sub-fields: semantics and pragmatics, syntax, and intonational
phonology
* Concludes with a case study of exclusives (like
"only"), arguing that the entire existing literature
has missed crucial generalizations, and for the first time
explaining the focus sensitivity of these expressions in terms of
their meaning and discourse function
the nascent field of formal pragmatics, exploring in detail the
semantics and pragmatics of focus in natural language discourse.
The authors develop a new account of focus sensitivity, and show
that what has hitherto been regarded as a uniform phenomenon in
fact results from three different mechanisms. The book
* Makes a major contribution to ongoing research in the area of
focus sensitivity - a field exploring interactions between
sound and meaning, specifically the dependency some words have on
the effects of focus, such as "she only LIKES me" (i.e. nothing
deeper) compared to "she only likes ME" (i.e. nobody else)
* Discusses the features of the QFC theory (Quasi association,
Free association, and Conventional association), a new account of
focus implying a tripartite typology of focus-sensitive
expressions
* Presents novel cross-linguistic data on focus and focus
sensitivity that will be relevant across a range of linguistic
sub-fields: semantics and pragmatics, syntax, and intonational
phonology
* Concludes with a case study of exclusives (like
"only"), arguing that the entire existing literature
has missed crucial generalizations, and for the first time
explaining the focus sensitivity of these expressions in terms of
their meaning and discourse function
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Sense and Sensitivity / Explorations in Semantics (PDF)“
1. Introduction. 2. Intonation and Meaning. 3. Three degrees of association. 4. Compositional analysis of focus. 5. Pragmatic Explanations of Focus. 6. Association with Reduced Material. 7. Extraction and Ellipsis. 8. Monotonicity and Presupposition. 9. Exclusives: facts and history. 10. Exclusives: a discourse account. 11. Conclusion
Autoren-Porträt von David I. Beaver, Brady Z. Clark
David I. Beaver is Associate Professor of Linguistics andPhilosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author
of Presupposition and Assertion in Dynamic Semantics (2001);
is co-editor of several books, including The Construction of
Meaning (2002); has authored numerous articles for prestigious
journals including Linguistics and Philosophy,
and Language; is on the editorial team or board of all the
three leading journals in semantics; and is co-founder of a new
open access journal, Semantics and Pragmatics, supported by
the Linguistic Society of America.
Brady Z. Clark is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at
Northwestern University and a faculty member at the Northwestern
Institute on Complex Systems. He is co-editor (with Beaver,
Casillas-Martínez, and Kaufmann) of The Construction of
Meaning (2002). He has published in journals including
Natural Language Semantics and Language, on topics
ranging from semantics to historical syntax and tutorial dialogue
systems.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: David I. Beaver , Brady Z. Clark
- 2009, 1. Auflage, 328 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 1444301330
- ISBN-13: 9781444301335
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.01.2009
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