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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785923103321

Titolo

What is a context? [[electronic resource] ] : linguistic approaches and challenges / / edited by Rita Finkbeiner, Jörg Meibauer, and Petra B. Schumacher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012

ISBN

1-283-89483-1

90-272-7321-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Collana

Linguistik aktuell = linguistics today ; ; v. 196

Altri autori (Persone)

FinkbeinerRita

MeibauerJörg

SchumacherPetra B

Disciplina

401/.43

Soggetti

Context (Linguistics)

Semantics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This volume is a collection of original papers on the notion of context in linguistics. Six of the ten articles are based on papers presented at a Workshop on Context, held in February 2011 at the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) at the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Linguistic perspectives on context -- pt. II. Case studies on context.

Sommario/riassunto

Recent work on numerically-quantified expressions has aimed to identify which components of their meaning are semantic and which are pragmatic. Pragmatically-oriented accounts assign a crucial role to contextual factors, such as the level of information requested in the preceding discourse and the availability of certain expressions to the speaker at the time of utterance. However, these models are typically imprecise as to which factors are relevant and how they interact. We discuss a recent proposal that treats numerical quantifier usage as a problem of multiple constraint satisfaction, and