Modality : : issues in the semantics-pragmatics interface / / Anna Papafragou.

This volume focuses on the interplay between grammatical and pragmatic factors in the comprehension of lexically communicated meaning. It uses a case-study, modality, in order to illustrate how the plasticity of lexically conveyed information can be accounted for without assuming semantic polysemy....

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Superior document:Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; Volume 6
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Place / Publishing House:Bingley, England : : Emerald Publishing,, [2000]
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Year of Publication:2000
Language:English
Series:Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; Volume 6.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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505 0 |a Section and chapter headings: -- Preface -- Introduction -- The issues -- Theoretical commitments: relevance theory -- The Semantics and Pragmatics of English Modal Verbs -- Introductory remarks -- Previous analyses -- A semantic proposal -- The pragmatics of root modality -- The pragmatics of epistemic modality -- Concluding remarks -- Removing Objections to a Unitary Semantic Analysis -- Introductory remarks -- Syntax and interpretation -- Truth-conditional behaviour -- 'Speech-act' modality -- Concluding remarks -- The Acquisition of Modality -- Introductory remarks -- Psycholinguistic evidence: a review -- A developmental proposal -- A note on autism and mindblindness -- Concluding remarks -- Implications for the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface -- Introductory remarks -- Options for lexical semantics: monosemy, ambiguity, polysemy -- Inference and the plasticity of lexical concepts -- Historical and developmental perspectives -- Concluding remarks -- Conclusion -- Bibliography. 
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