Pragmatics at its Interfaces / / ed. by Stavros Assimakopoulos.

All of the papers included in this volume offer some novel and/or updated perspective on issues of central importance in pragmatics, suggesting original ways in which research in the particular areas they adhere to could advance. Apart from the obvious aim of motivating further discussion on the top...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] , 17
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 315 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • I. Pragmatics and philosophy
  • 2. Back to negative particulars: A truth-conditional pragmatic account
  • 3. Colour adjectives, compositionality, and true utterances
  • 4. Talk about the future
  • 5. Illocutionary effects, presupposition, and implicature
  • II. Pragmatics and cognition
  • 6. Is implicit communication a way to escape epistemic vigilance?
  • 7. The structure of utterance meaning: how did it come about?
  • 8. The role of Theory of Mind, grammatical competence and metapragmatic awareness in irony comprehension
  • III. Pragmatics and linguistic analysis
  • 9. Theoretical and methodological issues in the research into implicit arguments in Hungarian
  • 10. The Pragmatics of ‘Yes’ and ‘No’
  • 11. Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence: On the interpretation of future tense in Modern Greek
  • 12. Redundancy effects in discourse: On the modal particle-combinations ‘halt eben’ and ‘eben halt’ in German
  • IV. Conversation analysis
  • 13. The pragmatics of intelligible pronunciation: Preemptive and reactive segmental repair in English as a lingua franca interactions in Japan
  • 14. The interactional functions of four repair operations in Hungarian
  • Index