Pragmatic markers and propositional attitude / edited by Gisle Andersen, Thorstein Fretheim.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Andersen, Gisle.

Fretheim, Thorstein.

Conference Name:

International Pragmatics Conference (6th : 1998 : Reims, France)

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 79.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., 79

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Propositional attitudes--Congresses.

Propositional attitudes.

Pragmatics--Congresses.

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

269 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In interactive discourse we not only express propositions, but we also express different attitudes to them. That is, we communicate how our mind entertains those propositions that we express. A speaker is able to express an attitude of belief, desire, hope, doubt, fear, regret or pretence that a given proposition represents a true state of affairs. This collection of papers explores the contribution of particles and other uninflected mood-indicating function words to the expression of propositional attitude in the broad sense. Some languages employ this type of attitude-marking device extensively, even for the expression of basic moods and basic speech act categories, other languages use such markers sparsely and always in interaction with syntactic form. Both types of language are examined in this volume, which includes studies of attitudinal markers in Amharic, English, Gascon, Occitan, German, Greek, Hausa, Hungarian, Japanese, Norwegian and Swahili. The theoretical emphasis is on issues such as interpretive vs. descriptive use of utterances or utterance parts, procedural semantics, linguistic underdetermination of the proposition expressed and the speaker's communicated attitude to it, higher-level explicatures in the relevance-theoretic sense, the explicit - implicit distinction, as well as processes of grammaticalization and negotiation of propositional attitude in spoken interaction.

Contents:

PRAGMATIC MARKERS AND PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDE

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

List of Contributors

Introduction

1. Pragmatic markers

2. The linguistic expression of propositional attitude

3. Overview of the papers in this volume

Acknowledgements

References

The role of the pragmatic marker like in utterance interpretation

1. Introduction

2. Like and interpretive resemblance

3. Like and attributed thoughts

4. Concluding remarks

Acknowledgement

Notes

Particles, propositional attitude and mutual manifestness

2. Knowledge markers and Relevance Theory

3. Variation amongst knowledge markers

4. The use of knowledge particles

5. Conclusion

Procedural encoding of propositional attitude in Norwegian conditional clauses

2. Altså and da as sentence-initial causal adverbs and as right-detached pragmatic particles

3. Conditional clauses modified by altså and da

4. Summing up

Incipient decategorization of MONO and grammaticalization of speaker attitude in Japanese discourse

2. The MONO DA construction

3. The working hypothesis

4. MONO in clause-linking (and utterance-linking)constructions

5. Utterance-final MONO

6. Reanalysis of MONO constructions

7. Conclusion

Procedural encoding of explicatures by the Modern Greek particle taha

2. A speech-act account of taha

3. Relevance theory and taha

4. Pragmatic interpretation of taha

Linguistic encoding of the guarantee of relevance: Japanese sentence-final particle YO

2. Problems with existing accounts.

3. A relevance-theoretic account of YO

4. Final remarks

Appendix: Abbreviations

Markers of general interpretive use in Amharic and Swahili

2. Markers of interpretive use in Amharic

3. The Swahili interrogative particle je

4. Other interpretive uses of je

Appendix 1: Abbreviations

Appendix 2: Key to Swahili sources

The attitudinal meaning of preverbal markers in Gascon: Insights from the analysis of literary and spoken language data

2. Enunciative distribution in subordinate clauses

3. Distribution of enunciatives in main clauses

4. Conclusion

Actually and other markers of an apparent discrepancy between propositional attitudes of conversational partners

2. Methodology and data

3. Negotiating discrepant viewpoints

4. Previous analyses of actually

5. Shifting ground with actually

6. Summary and conclusions

Appendix: Transcription conventions

Surprise and animosity: The use of the copula da inquotative sentences in Japanese

2. Quotative sentences with da

3. Functions of da in quotative sentences

The interplay of Hungarian de (but) and is (too, either)

2. The Particle is

3. The adversative connective de

Index.

Notes:

Chiefly papers presented at a panel held within the 6th International Pragmatics Conference which was held July 19-24, 1998, Reims, France.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613174628

9781283174626

1283174626

9789027283740

9027283745

OCLC:

735627825