Practical Theories and Empirical Practice

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A linguistic perspective

Andrea C. Schalley(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 19. Dezember 2012

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Practical Theories and Empirical Practice
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Dedication
Table of contents
List of contributors
Preface
Practical theories and empirical practice - facets of a complex interaction
1 Linguistics - the 'scientific' study of language
2 Methodological facets
3 The volume and its chapters: Thematic perspective
4 The volume and its chapters: Methodological considerations
4.1 Contextualisation
4.2 Methods and meta-theory
4.2.1 How can we arrive at convincing evidence?
4.2.2 What can we learn for successful cross-linguistic comparison?
4.2.2.1 Cross-linguistic elicitation tasks. The ideal cross-linguistic elicitation task is a task that is designed for usage with all languages and all cultures, that is well-designed with regard to the aims it wants to achieve, easy to administer, and th
4.2.2.2 Comparative basis
4.2.3 What might the future hold for linguistic research?
5 Conclusion
References
The embodiment of linguistic meaning
1. Language comprehension is based on complex and specific visual imagery
2. Imagery during sentence comprehension drives action planning processes
3. Sentence comprehension draws upon the understander's own action knowledge
4. Problems, questions, and implications
5. Conclusions
References
Infants' encoding of social interaction as a conceptual foundation for the acquisition of argument structure
1. Prelinguistic event representation and linguistic coding
2. Tracking of agents and spaces in a ditransitive give-and-take-event in the first year of life
3. Conclusions and outlook
References
Referring to colour and taste in Kilivila: stability and change in two lexical domains of sensory perception
1. Introduction
1.1 The use of stimuli in linguistic investigation
1.2 The Trobriand Islanders and their language Kilivila
2. Kilivila colour terms in 1983 and in 2008
2.1 Method, consultants and results of my 1983 study on Kilivila colour terms
2.2 Results of my 2008 study on Kilivila colour terms
2.2.1 Consultants and methods
2.2.2 Results
2.3 Colour terms in Kilivila then and now
3. Pacific Islanders talking about taste then and now
3.1 Taste terms gathered in 1982 and 1983
3.2 My 2008 study on Kilivila taste terms
3.2.1 Methods and consultants
3.2.2 Results
3.3 Pacific Islanders talking about taste then and now
4. An aside with an excursus to the Torres Straits Islands
5. Concluding remarks
References
Yucatec demonstratives in interaction
1. Introduction
2. A sketch of the expression of spatial deixis in Yucatec
3. Demonstratives in spontaneous interactions: Hanks (1990, 2005)
4. Demonstratives in elicited productions: The questionnaire study
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4.2 The semantics of the non-immediate forms
4.3 The role of attention direction
5. Discussion
References
Many languages, one knowledge base
1. Motivation and background
2. Application domain: social cognition
3. Knowledge base
4. Ontolinguistic research tool
4.1 Data entry
4.2 Querying and reporting
4.3 Backbone ontology
4.4 Multiple contributors and offline work facilities
5. Conclusion
References
Nen assentives and the phenomenon of dialogic parallelisms
1. Introduction
2. Dialogic parallelisms in grammar: A brief survey
2.1 Karcevski's observation: Ignorative - deictic parallelisms
2.2.1 Question-answer parallelisms in Welsh polar questions
2.2.2 Conjunct / disjunct systems
3. The Nen assentive
4. Semantics vs. discourse position
5. Conclusion
References
Evidentiality, modality, focus and other puzzles
1. Differences and similarities between languages
2. Metadiscourse
3. Theoretical and practical puzzles
3.1 The terminological puzzle: Evidentiality and modality
3.2 Theoretical puzzles: Facts, values, truth, intention, and assertion
3.3 Language-specific puzzles: Individual and shared minds
3.3.1 Quechua and Tibetan
3.3.2 German, English and Hungarian
3.3.3 Hungarian and Albanian
4. Conclusion
References
Does Searle's challenge affect chances for approximating assertion and quotative modal wollen?
References
The pragmatics of argumentation
1. Introduction
2. Argumentation: Organising our beliefs
3. Argument analysis in Informal Logic: Implicit premises
4. Commitment in assertions
4.1 Commitment to truth
4.2 Commitment to consistency
4.3 Commitment to relevance
4.4 Is commitment gradual?
5. Commitment to implicit premises
References
Implicature of complex sentences in error models
1. Introduction
2. Complex sentences: Sauerland's approach
3. Communication with noise
4. Interpretation games with noise
5. Implicatures of complex sentences
5.1 Complex sentences without disjunction
5.2 Complex sentences with disjunction
6. Some concluding remarks
References
The semantics of functional spaces
1. Introduction
2. Describing space in language
3. Type selection in generative lexicon
4. Selecting for funct ional spaces
5. Conclusion
References
Language index
Subject index

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