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UNINA9910779870103321 |
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Titolo |
Beyond words [[electronic resource] ] : content, context, and inference / / edited by Frank Liedtke and Cornelia Schulze |
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Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, Walter De Gruyter GmbH, 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (346 p.) |
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Collana |
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Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] ; ; 15 |
Mouton series in pragmatics, , 1864-6409 ; ; 15 |
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Classificazione |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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LiedtkeFrank |
SchulzeCornelia |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Pragmatics |
Inference |
Semantics |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Connectives |
Language and languages - Philosophy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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section I. General concepts -- section II. Acquiring inferential abilities -- section III. Grammar, meaning, and enrichment -- section IV. Constraints, memes, and constructions. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 to be considered as a complex utterance level combining semantic knowledge and context-driven, pragmatic information as an integrated whole. The focus of the present book lies on central questions about the nature, the function and the acquisition of pragmatic inferencing strategies. The question of the relation between the explicit and the implicit side of verbal communication and its mutual delimitation is addressed. What is the character of pragmatic inferences, wherever they may be situated in a descriptive model? Are they nonce inferences arising anew in each act of communication, or do we have to conceive of them as based on |
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