Drawing the boundaries of meaning: neo-Gricean studies in pragmatics and semantics in honor of Laurence R. Horn
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam J. Benjamins Pub. Co. 2006
Series:Studies in language companion series v. 80
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Laurence R. Horn; Introduction; Where have some of the presuppositions gone?; The top 10 misconceptions about implicature; Inferential relations and noncanonical word order; Sherlock Holmes Was In No Danger; Free choice in Romanian; Polarity, questions, and the scalar properties of even; Discourse particles and the symbiosis of natural language processing and basic research; Saying less and meaning less; I can't seem to fi gure this out; Referring expressions and conversational implicature
One of the most lively and contentious issues in contemporary linguistic theory concerns the elusive boundary between semantics and pragmatics, and Professor Laurence R. Horn of Yale University has been at the center of that debate ever since his groundbreaking 1972 UCLA dissertation. This volume in honor of Horn brings together the best of current work at the semantics/pragmatics boundary from a neo-Gricean perspective. Featuring the contributions of 22 leading researchers, it includes papers on implicature (Kent Bach), inference (Betty Birner), presupposition (Barbara Abbott), lexical semant
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 350 pages)
ISBN:9027230900
9027293058
9789027230904
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