Secondary Content
The Semantics and Pragmatics of Side Issues
Published on 20. June 2019
Book
Hardback
414 pages
978-90-04-39311-0 (ISBN)
Description
In addition to expressing some main content, utterances often convey secondary content, which is content that is not their "main point", but which rather provides side or background information, is less prominent than the main content, and shows distinctive behavior with respect to its role in discourse structure and which discourse moves it licenses. This volume collects original research papers on the semantics and pragmatics of secondary content. By covering a broad variety of linguistic phenomena that convey secondary content - including expressives, various particles, adverbials, pronouns, quotations, and dogwhistle language - the contributions show that secondary content is pervasive throughout different aspects of natural language and provide new insight into the nature of secondary content through new semantic and pragmatic analyses.
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Series
Edition
approx. xviii, 296 pp.
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
7 s/w Tabellen
7 Tables, black and white; 9 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
726 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-39311-0 (9789004393110)
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Daniel Gutzmann, Ph.D. (2013), University of Frankfurt, is a senior lecturer in German Linguistics at the University of Cologne, working on semantics, pragmatics. He is author of Use-Conditional Meaning (OUP, 2015) and co-edited two other volumes in the CRISPI series.
Katharina Turgay, Ph.D. (2010), University of Mainz, is a senior lecturer in German Linguistics at the University of Landau. She published two monographs and many articles on various grammatical and semantic topics, especially on non-formal varieties of language.
Contributors are: Ana Aguilar-Guevara, Patricia Amaral, Claudia Borgonovo, Elena Castroviejo & Berit Gehrke, Laura Doerre & Andreas Trotzke, Mira Grubic, Holden Haertl, Robert Henderson, , Stefan Hinterwimmer, Joachim Jacobs, Elin McCready, Kalle Mueller, Osamu Sawada, Heiko Seeliger, and Matthijs Westera.
Katharina Turgay, Ph.D. (2010), University of Mainz, is a senior lecturer in German Linguistics at the University of Landau. She published two monographs and many articles on various grammatical and semantic topics, especially on non-formal varieties of language.
Contributors are: Ana Aguilar-Guevara, Patricia Amaral, Claudia Borgonovo, Elena Castroviejo & Berit Gehrke, Laura Doerre & Andreas Trotzke, Mira Grubic, Holden Haertl, Robert Henderson, , Stefan Hinterwimmer, Joachim Jacobs, Elin McCready, Kalle Mueller, Osamu Sawada, Heiko Seeliger, and Matthijs Westera.
Content
1 Secondary Content: A Short Introduction
?Daniel Gutzmann and Katharina Turgay
2 Literal and Enriched Meaning of Sentences with Weak Definites and Bare Singulars
?Ana Aguilar-Guevara
3 Descriptive Pronouns
?Patricia Amaral
4 Concessive Clauses or How to Be Pragmatically Humble
?Claudia Borgonovo
5 Intensification and Secondary Content: A Case Study of Catalan Good
?Elena Castroviejo and Berit Gehrke
6 The Processing of Secondary Meaning: An Experimental Comparison of Focus and Modal Particles in Wh-questions
?Laura Doerre and Andreas Trotzke
7 Additives and Accommodation
?Mira Grubic
8 Is a So-Called "Beach" a Beach? An Empirically Based Analysis of Secondary Content Induced by Ironic Name Use
?Holden Haertl and Heiko Seeliger
9 Dogwhistles and the At-Issue/Non-At-Issue Distinction
?Robert Henderson and Elin McCready
10 The Bavarian Discourse Particle fei as a Marker of Non-At-Issueness
?Stefan Hinterwimmer
11 Why the Meaning of Discourse Particles Is Separated from Focus-Background Structure
?Joachim Jacobs
12 Sentence Adverbials, (NonAt-Issueness, and Orientation in German-Evidence from Conditionals
?Kalle Mueller
13 Interpretations of the Embedded Expressive Motto in Japanese: Varieties of Meaning and Projectivity
?Osamu Sawada
14 Rise-Fall-Rise as a Marker of Secondary QUD s
?Matthijs Westera
Index
?Daniel Gutzmann and Katharina Turgay
2 Literal and Enriched Meaning of Sentences with Weak Definites and Bare Singulars
?Ana Aguilar-Guevara
3 Descriptive Pronouns
?Patricia Amaral
4 Concessive Clauses or How to Be Pragmatically Humble
?Claudia Borgonovo
5 Intensification and Secondary Content: A Case Study of Catalan Good
?Elena Castroviejo and Berit Gehrke
6 The Processing of Secondary Meaning: An Experimental Comparison of Focus and Modal Particles in Wh-questions
?Laura Doerre and Andreas Trotzke
7 Additives and Accommodation
?Mira Grubic
8 Is a So-Called "Beach" a Beach? An Empirically Based Analysis of Secondary Content Induced by Ironic Name Use
?Holden Haertl and Heiko Seeliger
9 Dogwhistles and the At-Issue/Non-At-Issue Distinction
?Robert Henderson and Elin McCready
10 The Bavarian Discourse Particle fei as a Marker of Non-At-Issueness
?Stefan Hinterwimmer
11 Why the Meaning of Discourse Particles Is Separated from Focus-Background Structure
?Joachim Jacobs
12 Sentence Adverbials, (NonAt-Issueness, and Orientation in German-Evidence from Conditionals
?Kalle Mueller
13 Interpretations of the Embedded Expressive Motto in Japanese: Varieties of Meaning and Projectivity
?Osamu Sawada
14 Rise-Fall-Rise as a Marker of Secondary QUD s
?Matthijs Westera
Index