Meaning as Explanation
Advances in Linguistic Sign Theory
1st Edition
Published on 20. April 2011
XII, 487 pages
978-3-11-090757-5 (ISBN)
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Reprint 2010
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
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Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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146,27 MB
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978-3-11-090757-5 (9783110907575)
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Content
- Intro
- Preface
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction: On linguistic sign theory
- Part I Issues of theory and methodology
- Theory
- Quantitative analysis in Columbia School theory
- Meaning, data, and testing hypotheses
- Remarks on sign-oriented approaches to language analysis
- The purpose of a grammatical analysis
- When contact speakers talk, linguistic theory listens
- Part II Deixis
- Deixis from a cognitive point of view
- Deixis in Swahili: Attention meanings and pragmatic function
- Deixis and value: A semantic analysis of the Japanese demonstratives
- Part III Lexical meaning
- Only vs. just. Semantic integrality revisited
- Seeing is believing: Visual categories in the Russian lexicon
- Part IV Meaning in grammar and discourse
- The -ra and -se opposition in Spanish
- Conversational focus
- Italian pronouns and the virtue of relative meaninglessness
- Acquisition of English articles by native speakers of Spanish
- Logical inference involved in interpreting direct message sentences
- Author index
- Subject index
