Beyond words : content, context, and inference / edited by Frank Liedtke and Cornelia Schulze.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Liedtke, Frank.

Schulze, Cornelia.

Series:

Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP]

Mouton series in pragmatics, 1864-6409 ; 15

Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics.

Inference.

Semantics.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Connectives.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, Walter De Gruyter GmbH, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In pragmatics, it is widely accepted that the overall meaning of an utterance performed as part of a verbal interchange is basically underdetermined by the meaning of the sentence uttered. What counts as having been said for most contemporary authors goes far beyond sentence meaning. Rather, it has to be considered as a complex utterance level combining semantic knowledge and context-driven, pragmatic information as an integrated whole. The focus of the present book lies on central questions about the nature, the function and the acquisition of pragmatic inferencing strategies. The question of the relation between the explicit and the implicit side of verbal communication and its mutual delimitation is addressed. What is the character of pragmatic inferences, wherever they may be situated in a descriptive model? Are they nonce inferences arising anew in each act of communication, or do we have to conceive of them as based on regularities and conventions? What is an adequate model of the acquisition of the skills which are relevant for mastering the inferential processes leading to an adequate interpretation of utterances? And what is the relation between a theory of pragmatic enrichment and optimality theory with an OT pragmatics as a possible result?

Contents:

section I. General concepts

section II. Acquiring inferential abilities

section III. Grammar, meaning, and enrichment

section IV. Constraints, memes, and constructions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781614512776

1614512779

OCLC:

851970507