
Irregular Negatives, Implicatures, and Idioms
Beyond Implicature and Explicature Theories
Wayne A. Davis(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 26. April 2016
Book
Hardback
XVIII, 317 pages
978-94-017-7544-1 (ISBN)
Description
The author integrates, expands, and deepens his previous publications about irregular (or "metalinguistic") negations. A total of ten distinct negatives-several previously unclassified-are analyzed. The logically irregular negations deny different implicatures of their root. All are partially non-compositional but completely conventional.
The author argues that two of the irregular negative meanings are implicatures. The others are semantically rather than pragmatically ambiguous. Since their ambiguity is neither lexical nor structural, direct irregular negatives satisfy the standard definition of idioms as syntactically complex expressions whose meaning is non-compositional. Unlike stereotypical idioms, idiomatic negatives lack fixed syntactic forms and are highly compositional. The final chapter analyzes other "free form" idioms, including irregular interrogatives and comparatives, self-restricted verb phrases, numerical verb phrases, and transparent propositional attitude and speech act reports.
The author argues that two of the irregular negative meanings are implicatures. The others are semantically rather than pragmatically ambiguous. Since their ambiguity is neither lexical nor structural, direct irregular negatives satisfy the standard definition of idioms as syntactically complex expressions whose meaning is non-compositional. Unlike stereotypical idioms, idiomatic negatives lack fixed syntactic forms and are highly compositional. The final chapter analyzes other "free form" idioms, including irregular interrogatives and comparatives, self-restricted verb phrases, numerical verb phrases, and transparent propositional attitude and speech act reports.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
7 s/w Abbildungen
XVIII, 317 p. 7 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
670 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-017-7544-1 (9789401775441)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-017-7546-5
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Content
Preface.- Chapter 1. Irregular Negatives.- Chapter 2. Implicature.- Chapter 3. Irregular Negative Conventions.- Chapter 4. Implicature Theories.- Chapter 5. Pragmatic Explicature Theories.- Chapter 6. Free-Form Idiom Theory.- Chapter 7. Other Free-Form Idioms.