
Making Semantics Pragmatic
Ken Turner(Editor)
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Published on 8. June 2011
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-85724-909-8 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of especially invited papers aims to explore the nature of the semantics/pragmatics interface by examining the extent to which the analysis of certain expressions or constructions can be pragmaticised. As the title of the collection implicates, it is anticipated that the theoretical and descriptive burden will move from semantics to pragmatics. However not all parts of a linguistic system will yield to a pragmatic treatment. The possibility remains that certain expressions or constructions are more economically and elegantly treated in semantic terms. Thus, this collection also contains papers that address the topic of 'making pragmatics semantic'. This collection contributes to the current interest in examining the division of labour between semantics and pragmatics in the analysis of meaning. All of the papers are at the forefront of knowledge in these matters and each contains original empirical analyses and/or novel theoretical perspectives. This book is relevant to courses in university departments of linguistics, modern languages, philosophy and psychology and to a wide range of university teaching and research.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85724-909-8 (9780857249098)
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