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What is a context? : linguistic approaches and challenges / edited by Rita Finkbeiner, Jörg Meibauer, and Petra B. Schumacher.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 196.
- Linguistik aktuell = linguistics today ; v. 196
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Context (Linguistics).
- Semantics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (261 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Recent work on numerically-quantified expressions has aimed to identify which components of their meaning are semantic and which are pragmatic. Pragmatically-oriented accounts assign a crucial role to contextual factors, such as the level of information requested in the preceding discourse and the availability of certain expressions to the speaker at the time of utterance. However, these models are typically imprecise as to which factors are relevant and how they interact. We discuss a recent proposal that treats numerical quantifier usage as a problem of multiple constraint satisfaction, and
- Contents:
- pt. I. Linguistic perspectives on context
- pt. II. Case studies on context.
- Notes:
- "This volume is a collection of original papers on the notion of context in linguistics. Six of the ten articles are based on papers presented at a Workshop on Context, held in February 2011 at the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) at the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283894838
- 1283894831
- 9789027273215
- 9027273219
- OCLC:
- 815668638
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