Modality : : issues in the semantics-pragmatics interface /

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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Papafragou, Anna,
Place / Publishing House:Bingley, England : : Emerald Publishing,, [2000]
©2000
Year of Publication:2000
Language:English
Series:Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; Volume 6.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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