Beyond meaning / edited by Elly Ifantidou, Louis de Saussure, Tim Wharton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wharton, Tim, editor.

Saussure, Louis de, editor.

Ifantidou, Elly, editor.

Series:

Pragmatics and Beyond New

Pragmatics and Beyond New ; v.324

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive grammar--Congresses.

Cognitive grammar.

Inference--Congresses.

Inference.

Pragmatics--Congresses.

Pragmatics.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"Despite the fact that they are often crucial to our understanding, the vague, ineffable elements of language use and communication have received much less attention from linguists than the more concrete, effable ones. This has left a range of important questions unanswered. How might we account for the communication of non-propositional phenomena such as moods, emotions and impressions? What type of cognitive response do these phenomena trigger, if not conceptual or propositional? Do creative metaphors and unknown words in second languages and other 'pointers' to 'conceptual regions' communicate concepts learned from language alone? How might the descriptive ineffability of interjections, free indirect speech etc. be accommodated within a theory of communication? What of those working on the aesthetics of artworks, music and literature? What can evolution tell us about ineffability? The papers in this volume address these fascinating questions head-on. They represent a range of different attempts to answer them and, in so doing, allow us to pose exciting new questions. The aim, to bring the ineffable firmly within the grasp of theoretical pragmatics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Introduction

Section 1. Beyond meaning

Beyond meaning NN and ostension

Contrastive stress in English

Presupposition effects

Metaphor comprehension

Section 2. Beyond meaning

Conceptual mappings and contextual assumptions

An experiential view on what makes literature relevant

Humorous means, serious messages

Section 3. Furthur beyond

Experiences of ineffable significance

Hushed tones

Onomatopoeia, impressions and text on screen

Before meaning

Index

Notes:

Based on the Beyond Meaning conference held in September 2017 at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

1267402186