The semantics-pragmatics controversy / / Kristin Börjesson

• Autore: Börjesson Kristin <1977->
• Pubblicazione: Berlin : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014]; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (340 p.)
• Disciplina: 401/.43
• Soggetto topico: Semantics, Comparative; Pragmatics; Discourse analysis; Speech acts (Linguistics); Contrastive linguistics
• Soggetto non controllato: Pragmatics; Semantics
• Classificazione: ET 400
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Against the Standard Notions of Literal Meaning and Non-literal Meaning -- 3. Utterance Meaning and the Literal/Non-literal Distinction -- 4. Utterance Meaning and Communicative Sense - Two Levels or One? -- 5. Varieties of Meaning, Context and the Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction -- 6. Summary -- List of Figures -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Currently, there is a great number of approaches to the semantics-pragmatics distinction on the market. This book is unique in that it offers a comprehensive overview, comparison and critical evaluation of these approaches. Taking as a starting point the notorious difficulty of differentiating so-called literal from non-literal (or figurative) meaning, it covers a wide range of the key current topics in semantics and pragmatics, e.g., the saying/meaning distinction, minimalism vs. contextualism, unarticulated constituents, indexicalism, (generalised) conversational implicatures, speech acts, levels of meaning in interpretation, the role of context in interpretation, the nature of lexical meaning. Notably, rather than taking a solely theoretical perspective, the book integrates psycho- and neurolinguistic perspectives, considering experimental results concerning the (differences in) processing of the various types of meaning covered. In terms of topics covered and perspectives taken, it is equally well suited for undergraduate as well as postgraduate students of linguistics and/or philosophy of language.
• Titolo autorizzato: The semantics-pragmatics controversy
• ISBN: 3-11-037258-4; 3-11-033341-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910806172903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Language, context, and cognition ; ; v. 14.