Beyond Words : : Content, Context, and Inference /

Beyond Words : : Content, Context, and Inference / / ed. by Frank Liedtke, Cornelia Schulze.

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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 basically underdetermined by the meaning of the sentence uttered. What counts as having been said for most contemporary authors goes far beyond sentence meaning. Rather, it has...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Amaral, Patricia,
Blutner, Reinhard,
Clark, Billy,
Cummins, Chris,
Diedrichsen, Elke,
Gese, Helga,
Grassmann, Susanne,
Katsos, Napoleon,
Keller, Rudi,
Liedtke, Frank,
Mazzone, Marco,
Meibauer, Jörg,
Pouscoulous, Nausicaa,
Schulze, Cornelia,
Schumacher, Petra B.,
HerausgeberIn:
Liedtke, Frank,
Schulze, Cornelia,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] , 15
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Physical Description:1 online resource (340 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Beyond Words
  • Section I. General Concepts
  • Short introduction: General concepts
  • Communication in the narrower and broader sense
  • Pragmatics in Optimality Theory
  • Section II. Acquiring inferential abilities
  • 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
  • Section III. Grammar, meaning, and enrichment
  • 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
  • Section IV. Constraints, memes, and constructions
  • 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

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