Figurative Language: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Linguistic Perspectives

Dmitrij Dobrovol'skij, Elisabeth Piirainen

• Hardcover | Engels | Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface | nr. 13
• The aim of this study is to discover basic principles underlying linguistic figurativeness and to develop a theory that is capable of capturing conven... Lees meer

The Lexicon-Encyclopedia Interface

• Hardcover | Engels | Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface | nr. 5
• Questions about the exact nature of linguistic as opposed to non-linguistic knowledge have been asked for as long as humans have studied language, be ... Lees meer

Meaning: The Dynamic Turn

• Hardcover | Engels | Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface | nr. 12
• In recent decades, many theories of formal semantics of natural language have undergone what can be called a dynamic turn: they have moved from treati... Lees meer

Discourse, Beliefs and Intentions: Semantic Defaults and Propositional Attitude Ascription

Katarzyna Jaszczolt

• Hardcover | Engels | Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface | nr. 2
• This book is about beliefs, language, communication and cognition. It deals with the fundamental issue of the interpretation of the speaker's utteranc... Lees meer

Numerous Meanings

Bert Bultinck

• Hardcover | Engels | Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface | nr. 15
• Outlandish as it may seem to the uninitiated, the meaning of English cardinal numbers has been the object of many heated and fascinating debates. Notw... Lees meer

The Pragmatics of Propositional Attitude Reports

Katarzyna Jaszczolt

• Hardcover | Engels | Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface | nr. 4
• This volume, the fourth in the Current Research in Semantics/Pragmatics Interface series, is a collection of nine papers dealing with the topic of rep... Lees meer

Modality: Issues in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

Anna Papafragou

• Hardcover | Engels | Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface | nr. 6
• This volume focuses on the interplay between grammatical and pragmatic factors in the comprehension of lexically communicated meaning. It uses a case-... Lees meer

Game Theory and Linguistic Meaning

• Hardcover | Engels | Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface | nr. 18
• This is the first book to collect research on game-theoretic tools in the analysis of language with particular reference to semantics and pragmatics. ... Lees meer

Semantic and Pragmatic Issues in Discourse and Dialogue

Myriam Bras, Laure Vieu

• Hardcover | Engels | Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface | nr. 9
• This volume addresses contemporary issues in the semantics and the pragmatics of discourse and dialogue. Collected papers aim at providing insights on... Lees meer

Procedural Meaning: Problems and Perspectives

• Hardcover | Engels | Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface | nr. 25
• Although the notion of procedural meaning is found in areas such as discourse markers, reference, tense, modality and intonation, until now there has ... Lees meer

Contexts of Metaphor

Michiel Leezenberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface | nr. 7
• This study presents an approach to metaphor that systematically takes contextual factors into account. It analyses how metaphors both depend on, and c... Lees meer

Where Semantics Meets Pragmatics

• Hardcover | Engels | Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface | nr. 16
• The Current Research in the Semantic / Pragmatics Interface series has carved out a new and vibrant area of research. This volume offers the reader a ... Lees meer

Multidimensional Semantics of Evaluative Adverbs

Mingya Liu

• Hardcover | Engels | Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface | nr. 26
• Multidimensional Semantics of Evaluative Adverbs provides a multidimensional analysis for the lexical semantics of evaluative adverbs: nonfactive eval... Lees meer

Vagueness, Gradability and Typicality

Galit Weidman Sassoon

• Hardcover | Engels | Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface | nr. 27
• This book presents a study of the connections between vagueness and gradability, and their different manifestations in adjectives (morphological grada... Lees meer

The Semantics of Free Indirect Discourse

Regine Eckardt

• Hardcover | Engels | Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface | nr. 31
• Free indirect discourse presents us with the inner world of protagonists of a story. We seem to see the world through their eyes, and listen to their ... Lees meer

Pragmatics and the Flexibility of Word Meaning

Eniko Nemeth, Károly Bibok

• Hardcover | Engels | Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface | nr. 8
• Recently, the investigation of word meaning in utterances has connected two different fields: lexical semantics and pragmatics. A new linguistic disci... Lees meer

Particles at the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface

Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen

• Hardcover | Engels | Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface | nr. 19
• The central aim of this study is to elucidate the nature of the semantics / pragmatics distinction in both synchrony and diachrony. The author propose... Lees meer

Presuppositions and Pronouns

Bart Geurts

• Hardcover | Engels | Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface | nr. 3
• In this volume, Geurts takes discourse representation theory (DRT), and turns it into a unified account of anaphora and presupposition, which he appli... Lees meer