Secondary content : the semantics and pragmatics of side issues / edited by Daniel Gutzman, Katharina Turgay.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gutzman, Daniel, editor.

Turgay, Katharina, editor.

Series:

Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface; volume37.

Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface; volume37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics.

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (413 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Summary:

In addition to expressing some main content, utterances often convey secondary content, which is content that is not their “main point”, but which rather provides side or background information, is less prominent than the main content, and shows distinctive behavior with respect to its role in discourse structure and which discourse moves it licenses. This volume collects original research papers on the semantics and pragmatics of secondary content. By covering a broad variety of linguistic phenomena that convey secondary content – including expressives, various particles, adverbials, pronouns, quotations, and dogwhistle language – the contributions show that secondary content is pervasive throughout different aspects of natural language and provide new insight into the nature of secondary content through new semantic and pragmatic analyses.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Secondary Content: An Introduction / Daniel Gutzmann and Katharina Turgay

Literal and Enriched Meaning of Sentences with Weak Definites and Bare Singulars / Ana Aguilar-Guevara

Descriptive Pronouns / Patrícia Amaral

Concessive Clauses or How to Be Pragmatically Humble / Claudia Borgonovo

Intensification and Secondary Content: A Case Study of Catalan Good / Elena Castroviejo and Berit Gehrke

The Processing of Secondary Meaning: An Experimental Comparison of Focus and Modal Particles in Wh-questions / Laura Dörre and Andreas Trotzke

Additives and Accommodation / Mira Grubic

Is a So-Called “Beach” a Beach? An Empirically Based Analysis of Secondary Content Induced by Ironic Name Use / Holden Härtl and Heiko Seeliger

Dogwhistles and the At-Issue/Non-At-Issue Distinction / Robert Henderson and Elin McCready

The Bavarian Discourse Particle fei as a Marker of Non-At-Issueness / Stefan Hinterwimmer

Why the Meaning of Discourse Particles is Separated from Focus-Background Structure / Joachim Jacobs

Sentence Adverbials, (Non-)At-Issueness, and Orientation in German—Evidence from Conditionals / Kalle Müller

Interpretations of the Embedded Expressive Motto in Japanese: Varieties of Meaning and Projectivity / Osamu Sawada

Rise-Fall-Rise as a Marker of Secondary QUD s / Matthijs Westera

Back Matter

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004393127

9004393129

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004393127 DOI