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Presents a study of a key meeting point of grammar and pragmatics: focus, in particular its syntactic expression in Hungarian. This work offers a picture of syntax, semantics and pragmatics - and how they inter-relate. It extends and integrates research from a variety of linguistic domains and ...
€109.00$141.00
Intends to discover basic principles underlying linguistic figurativeness and to develop a theory that is capable of capturing conventional figurative language (referred to as CFLT - Conventional Figurative Language Theory). This study analyses idioms, proverbs, lexicalised metaphors, and ...
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Presents a study of the theories of formal semantics of natural language. Based on a conference held in Prague in September 2001, this book consists of papers addressing, from various sides, the foundational questions of the dynamic theories of meaning. It helps to understand more than just the ...
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Features a collection of papers addressing context-dependence and methods for dealing with it. This book also records comments to the papers and the authors' replies to the comments. In this way, the contributions themselves are contextually dependent. It represents an inquiry into the ...
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This volume attempts to bridge the gap between theory and empirical analysis by focussing on several aspects of the semantics and the pragmatics of Spanish from a variety of theoretical points of view.
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Hedging is an essential part of everyday communication. It is a discourse strategy which is used to reduce commitment to the force or truth of an utterance to achieve an appropriate pragmatic effect. This title provides an overview of research on the topic by bringing together studies from a ...
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This volume addresses contemporary issues in the semantics and the pragmatics of discourse and dialogue. Collected papers aim at providing insights on different theoretical approaches, all of them in the dynamic semantics tradition, such as Dynamic Predicate Logic (DPL).