Grammar, meaning and pragmatics / edited by Frank Brisard, Jan-Ola Ostman, Jef Verschueren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brisard, Frank.

Östman, Jan-Ola.

Verschueren, Jef.

Series:

Handbook of pragmatics highlights ; v. 5.

Handbook of pragmatics highlights, 1877-654X ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Semantics.

Physical Description:

xii, 308 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA, USA ; Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, cognitive, cultural, social, variational, interactional, or discursive points of view, this fifth volume looks at the field of linguistic pragmatics from a primarily grammatical angle. That is, it asks in which particular sense a variety of older and more recent functional (rather than generative) models of grammar relate to the study of language in use: how this affects their general outlook on language structure, whether issues of language use inform the very makeup of these models or are merely included as possible research themes, and how far the actual integration of pragmatics ultimately goes (is it a module/layer or is the model truly "usage-based"?). Each of the authors presenting these models has taken systematic care to highlight the relevant problems and focus on the implications of considering pragmatic phenomena from the point of view of grammar. Furthermore, a limited number of chapters deal with traditional topics in the grammatical literature, and specifically those which are called pragmatic because they either are not strictly concerned with truth (semantics), or receive their (truth) value only from an interaction with context. In the introduction, these theories and topics are set up against the historical background of a gradually changing attitude, on the part of grammarians, towards questions of linguistic knowledge and behavior, and the role of learning in their relationship.

Contents:

Constructional analysis / Kiki Nikiforidou

Control phenomena / Benjamin Lyngfelt

Definiteness / Ritva Laury

Emergent grammar / Marja-Liisa Helasvuo

Frame analysis / Branca Telles Ribeiro & Susan M. Hoyle

Functional discourse grammar : pragmatic aspects / Mike Hannay & Kees Hengeveld

Generative semantics / James D. McCawley

Iconicity / Elżbieta Tabakowska

Information structure / Jeanette K. Gundel & Thorstein Fretheim

Mental spaces / Todd Oakley

Modality / Ferenc Kiefer

Negation / Matti Miestamo

Prague school / Petr Sgall

Role and reference grammar / Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.

Semantics vs. pragmatics / Ken Turner

Tense and aspect / Robert I. Binnick

Word order / Mirjam Fried.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612312243

9781282312241

1282312243

9789027289186

9027289182

OCLC:

496960453