Negative Inversion, Social Meaning, and Gricean Implicature : : A Study Across Three Texas Ethnolects / / William Salmon.
Relying on a wealth of new data, this book argues that long-standing puzzles of Negative Inversion (NI) syntax are not puzzles at all when viewed through the lenses of Gricean pragmatics and Labovian sociolinguistics. Focusing on sentences such as "Can't nobody lift that rock" in Afri...
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Salmon, William, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Negative Inversion, Social Meaning, and Gricean Implicature : A Study Across Three Texas Ethnolects / William Salmon. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2020] ©2020 1 online resource (XIV, 218 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] , 1864-6409 ; 24 Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of abbreviations and symbols -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Negative inversion in Texas, in three varieties of English -- Chapter 2 Negative inversion and its contents -- Chapter 3 Negative inversion, existential sentences, and definite subjects -- Chapter 4 Negative inversion and its discontents -- Chapter 5 Negative inversion and emphatic meanings -- Chapter 6 Negative inversion is a formal idiom -- Conclusion -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Relying on a wealth of new data, this book argues that long-standing puzzles of Negative Inversion (NI) syntax are not puzzles at all when viewed through the lenses of Gricean pragmatics and Labovian sociolinguistics. Focusing on sentences such as "Can't nobody lift that rock" in African American, Anglo, and Chicano Englishes in Texas, the book provides tidy solutions to problems such as: the NI’s relationship to its non-inverted counterpart, its relationship to existential “there” sentences, to modal existential sentences, to the definiteness effects surrounding its NP subject, the emphatic meaning with which it seems to be associated, and more. The book argues that such issues, which have been explored in the syntax and semantics literature since the late 1960s, are handled more fruitfully via Gricean reasoning, demographics of use, and a simple semantics. As such, the book argues that NI can be freed from the “syntactico-semantic straitjacket” into which it has often been forced. It also demonstrates ways in which pragmatic and sociolinguistic thought can be brought together to inform larger linguistic analyses. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023) Implication (Logic). Language and languages Philosophy. Speech acts (Linguistics). LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. bisacsh Implicature. Negative Inversion. Social Marker. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020 9783110696288 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2020 Part 1 9783110696271 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter De Gruyter English eBooks 2020 - UC 9783110659061 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter De Gruyter Mouton Frontlist 2020 9783110743166 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English 9783110704716 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 9783110704518 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Linguistics 2020 English 9783110704761 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Linguistics 2020 9783110704563 ZDB-23-DSP EPUB 9781501512360 print 9781501519277 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501512346 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501512346 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501512346/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of abbreviations and symbols -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Negative inversion in Texas, in three varieties of English -- Chapter 2 Negative inversion and its contents -- Chapter 3 Negative inversion, existential sentences, and definite subjects -- Chapter 4 Negative inversion and its discontents -- Chapter 5 Negative inversion and emphatic meanings -- Chapter 6 Negative inversion is a formal idiom -- Conclusion -- References -- Index |
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