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.
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-15 - Publisher: Springer
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
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-11 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Intercultural Pragmatics is a large and diverse field encompassing a wide range of approaches, methods, and theories. This volume draws scholars together from a broad range of cognitive, philosophical, and sociopragmatic perspectives on language use in order to lay the path for a mutually informing and enriching dialogue across subfields
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-15 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Chapter 12. Why don't you tell it explicitly?: Personal/subpersonal accounts of implicitness -- 1. Overview -- 2. Personal/subpersonal explanations of implicitness and politeness -- 3. An automatic/controlled continuum of processing -- 4. Motives for implicitness -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- chapter 13. Implicature and the inferential substrate -- 1.
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-14 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
This volume offers novel views on the precise relation between reference to an object by means of a linguistic expression and our mental representation of that object, long a source of debate in the philosophy of language, linguistics, and cognitive science. Chapters in this volume deal with our devices for
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-12-07 - Publisher: Springer
The chapters in this volume address a variety of issues surrounding quotation, such as whether it is a pragmatic or semantic phenomenon, what varieties of quotation exist, and what speech acts are involved in quoting. Quotation poses problems for many prevailing theories of language. One fundamental principle is that for