Secondary content : the semantics and pragmatics of side issues / / edited by Daniel Gutzman, Katharina Turgay.

• Superior document: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface; volume37
• TeilnehmendeR: Gutzman, Daniel,; Turgay, Katharina,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface; volume37.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (413 pages).

In addition to expressing some main content, utterances often convey secondary content, which is content that is not their “main point”, but which rather provides side or background information, is less prominent than the main content, and shows distinctive behavior with respect to its role in discourse structure and which discourse moves it licenses. This volume collects original research papers on the semantics and pragmatics of secondary content. By covering a broad variety of linguistic phenomena that convey secondary content – including expressives, various particles, adverbials, pronouns, quotations, and dogwhistle language – the contributions show that secondary content is pervasive throughout different aspects of natural language and provide new insight into the nature of secondary content through new semantic and pragmatic analyses.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Secondary Content: An Introduction / Daniel Gutzmann and Katharina Turgay -- Literal and Enriched Meaning of Sentences with Weak Definites and Bare Singulars / Ana Aguilar-Guevara -- Descriptive Pronouns / Patrícia Amaral -- Concessive Clauses or How to Be Pragmatically Humble / Claudia Borgonovo -- Intensification and Secondary Content: A Case Study of Catalan Good / Elena Castroviejo and Berit Gehrke -- The Processing of Secondary Meaning: An Experimental Comparison of Focus and Modal Particles in Wh-questions / Laura Dörre and Andreas Trotzke -- Additives and Accommodation / Mira Grubic -- Is a So-Called “Beach” a Beach? An Empirically Based Analysis of Secondary Content Induced by Ironic Name Use / Holden Härtl and Heiko Seeliger -- Dogwhistles and the At-Issue/Non-At-Issue Distinction / Robert Henderson and Elin McCready -- The Bavarian Discourse Particle fei as a Marker of Non-At-Issueness / Stefan Hinterwimmer -- Why the Meaning of Discourse Particles is Separated from Focus-Background Structure / Joachim Jacobs -- Sentence Adverbials, (Non-)At-Issueness, and Orientation in German—Evidence from Conditionals / Kalle Müller -- Interpretations of the Embedded Expressive Motto in Japanese: Varieties of Meaning and Projectivity / Osamu Sawada -- Rise-Fall-Rise as a Marker of Secondary QUD s / Matthijs Westera -- Back Matter -- Index.