Télécharger le livre :  Alternatives in Grammar and Cognition
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This edited book brings together research investigating foundational issues relating to the generation and restriction of alternative sets from theoretical and empirical perspectives. It includes contributions from noted scholars in the field to provide theoretical...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-02-28
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
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Télécharger le livre :  Conditionals
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This edited book examines conditionals from a number of interdisciplinary perspectives, drawing on research from fields as diverse as linguistics, psychology, philosophy and logic. Across 13 chapters, the authors not only investigate and examine various commonly-held...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-04-29
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
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Télécharger le livre :  Measurements, Numerals and Scales
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This book brings together chapters on the semantics and pragmatics of measurement, scales, and numerical expressions. The chapters highlight recent developments in measurement theory, the meaning of numerical expressions and the relation between measurement scales and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-02-07
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
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Télécharger le livre :  Context, Cognition and Conditionals
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This book proposes a semantic theory of conditionals that can account for (i) the variability in usages that conditional sentences can be put; and (ii) both conditional sentences of the form ‘if p, q’ and those conditional thoughts that are expressed without using ‘if’....

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-06-24
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
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Télécharger le livre :  Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches on Implicatures and Presuppositions
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This book discusses developments in the study of implicatures and presuppositions, drawing on recent linguistic and psycholinguistic literature. It provides original discussions of specific formal aspects of the theoretical reconstruction of these phenomena. The authors...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-05-03
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
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Télécharger le livre :  Alternative Sets in Language Processing
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This book presents a novel experimental approach to investigating the mental representation of linguistic alternatives. Combining theoretical and psycholinguistic questions concerning the nature of alternative sets, it sheds new light on the theory of focus and the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-01-20
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
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Télécharger le livre :  Presuppositions and Cognitive Processes
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This book breaks new ground towards an understanding of the mental processes involved in presupposition, the comprehension of information taken for granted. Various psycholinguistic experiments are discussed to support the idea that involved in ordinary language...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-07-29
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
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Télécharger le livre :  Alternatives in Semantics
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This volume offers a survey of the use of alternatives in semantics and pragmatics, and an overview of current approaches and applications of alternative-based semantics, from both theoretical and experimental perspectives.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-04-30
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
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Télécharger le livre :  Truth without Predication
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This book contains an original analysis of the existential there-sentence from a philosophical-linguistic perspective. At its core is the claim that there-sentences' form is distinct from that of ordinary subject–predicate sentences, and that this fundamental difference...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-02-12
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
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Télécharger le livre :  Pragmatic Literary Stylistics
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In considering the ways in which current theories of language in use and communicative processes are applied to the analysis, interpretation and definition of literary texts, this book sets an agenda for the future of pragmatic literary stylistics and provides a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-09-02
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
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Télécharger le livre :  Pragmatics, Semantics and the Case of Scalar Implicatures
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This book is an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical linguistics in the last 20 years. Leading theorists in the field offer an up-to-date presentation of the subject in a way that will help readers to...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-08-17
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
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Télécharger le livre :  Vagueness and Language Use
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This volume brings together twelve papers by linguists and philosophers contributing novel empirical and formal considerations to theorizing about vagueness. Three main issues are addressed: gradable expressions and comparison, the semantics of degree adverbs and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-04-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Explicit Communication
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This collection brings about a current interdisciplinary debate on explicit communication. With Robyn Carston's pragmatics at the core of the discussion, special attention is drawn to linguistic under-determinacy, the explicit/implicit divide and also to the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-10-27
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
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Télécharger le livre :  Meaning and Analysis: New Essays on Grice
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The anthology 'Meaning and Analysis' addresses the key topics of H. Paul Grice's philosophy of language, such as rationality, non-natural meaning, communicative actions, conversational implicatures, the semantics-pragmatics distinction and recent debates concerning...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-10-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Assertion
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Assertion is a term frequently used in linguistics and philosophy but rarely defined. This in-depth study surveys and synthesizes a range of philosophical, linguistic and psychological literature on the topic, and then presents a detailed account of the cognitive...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-07-30
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
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Télécharger le livre :  Language, Thought and Reference
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How should we analyse the meaning of proper names, indexicals, demonstratives and definite descriptions? What relation do such expressions stand to the objects they designate or to mental representations of those objects? George Powell casts new light on these and other...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-03-31
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
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Télécharger le livre :  Accentuation and Interpretation
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Develops a highly original theory of accentuation in which accentuation serves the mere pragmatic function of making utterances well comprehensible. Semantic effects of accentuation are explained as epiphenomena of pragmatic accentuation. The theory is formally...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-01-23
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
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Télécharger le livre :  Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics
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All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the contributors to this volume investigate three mental mechanisms, widely assumed to underlie this ability: compositional...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-05-10
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
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Télécharger le livre :  Genre, Relevance and Global Coherence
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This book seeks to explain how discourse types influence the addressee's understanding of the communicator's intention. Examining global coherence-based accounts as well as proposals based on Gricean pragmatics, it argues that the key to a solution lies in the cognitive...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-11-28
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
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Télécharger le livre :  Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages
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The author questions the status quo in Romance linguistics.The Ergative/Unaccusative syntactic approach has been accepted as the orthodox analytical paradigm. He re-examines both the theoretical imperative and the empirical evidence for that approach, drawing on a large...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-03-21
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
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