Reference : from conventions to pragmatics / edited by Laure Gardelle, Laurence Vincent-Durroux, and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gardelle, Laure, editor.

Vincent-Durroux, Laurence, editor.

Vinckel, Hélène, editor.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; Volume 228.

Studies in Language Companion Series ; Volume 228

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reference (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 349 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2023]

Summary:

"This volume provides an innovative approach to the referential process thanks to its focus on the relationship between conventions and discourse pragmatics. It brings together a cross-section of current research on referential conventions and pragmatic strategies, in a number of different fields (formal and theoretical linguistics, semantics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, interactional linguistics, natural language processing), in a variety of verbal and non-verbal languages (English, German, different varieties of French, Indonesian, French Belgian Sign Language) and in a diversity of contexts (the coining of names, language acquisition, second language learning, and various genres such as news articles, narratives, satire or game playing). The volume is meant as a series of thought-provoking studies which place speakers and addressees at the core of the referential act, thus providing evidence on how they negotiate and adjust, depending on the context."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Speakers, addressees and the referential process: A pragmatic approach / Laure Gardelle, Laurence Vincent-Durroux and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin

Part I. New insights into referential conventions

Anaphoric potential of bare nominals, incorporated objects and weak definites in German: Experimental results and theoretical modeling / Manfred Krifka and Fereshteh Modarresi

Is ambient it truly non-referential? / Élise Mathurin

Lions , flowers and the Romans : Exception management with generic and other count plurals / Laure Gardelle

Genre and reference chains: From a global to a local approach / Dominique Dias

A linear approach of chain composition / Silvia Federzoni, Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac and Cécile Fabre

When referents are seen and heard: A comparative study of constructed action in the discourse of LSFB (French Belgian Sign Language) signers and Belgian French speakers / Sébastien Vandenitte

Part II. From conventions to pragmatics: Argumentative contexts

Human collective nouns and plural definite noun phrases: Semantic and argumentative perspectives on plural reference in French / Michelle Lecolle

Electric vehicles in the press: Referential expressions as carriers of ideology / Elodie Vargas and Jérémy Machy

Referring to the self and the addressee overtly: An emerging convention in Indonesian argumentative practice? / Dwi Noverini Djenar

Part III. From conventions to pragmatics: Creative uses

Leaving this unsaid: A case study of empty this in North American satirical newspaper headlines / Stephen Skalicky and Victoria Chen

Referential conventions as compromise: The case of oronyms / Samia Ounoughi

Referring to an avenue as an ‘artery’ (artère) in French: From lexical signification to referential and discursive issues / Thomas Bertin

Part IV. From conventions to pragmatics: Speaker adjustments in interaction

Who creates reference? Reference as an interactive procedure in discourse / Manfred Consten

“peut-être on peut improviser un peu”: The emergence of joint construction of reference in a card game situation / Heike Baldauf-Quilliatre, Elizaveta Chernyshova, Isabel Colón de Carvajal, Carole Etienne, Lydia Heiden and Laurène Smykowski

Temporal reference in oral narratives produced by French learners of English as a second language: The case of AND / Caroline David, Laurence Vincent-Durroux, Kerry Mullan, Christine Béal and Cécile Poussard

The choice of referring expressions in adult-child dialogues: The influence of formal and functional factors / Marine Le Mené, Anne Salazar Orvig, Christine Da Silva-Genest and Haydée Marcos.

Notes:

Description based on online resource (viewed 23 June 2023), publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-272-5467-2

OCLC:

1362528776