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Shukla, Hira Lal. The literary semantics of Kālidāsa: A pragmatic approach. Gian Pub. House, 1987.

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Yi, Ki-dong. A Korean grammar on semantic-pragmatic principles. Hanʾguk Munhwasa, 1993.

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Ki-dong, Yi. A Korean grammar on semantic-pragmatic principles. Hanʼguk Munhwasa, 1993.

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Paul, Rhea. Pragmatic activities for language intervention (PALI): Semantics, syntax, and emerging literacy. Communication Skill Builders, 1992.

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Konurbaev, Marklen. Practical semantics: vertical semantic analysis and interpretation of texts in English. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2025. https://doi.org/10.12737/2195473.

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The textbook is devoted to the development of analytical and writing skills of students of higher educational institutions. Focusing on the works of Bertrand Russell and Winston Churchill, the book introduces readers to an in-depth analysis of the semantic, pragmatic, and contextual aspects of language, offering comprehensive methods for understanding and interpreting them. It is an essential resource for anyone who aspires to master the art of accurate and meaningful writing.
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Sequeiros, Xosé Rosales. Effects of pragmatic interpretation on translation: Communicative gaps and textual discrepancies. Lincom Europa, 2005.

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Wen, Xu. A cognitive-pragmatic study in ironic utterances: Fan feng hua yu de ren zhi yu yong yan jiu. Zhongguo she hui ke xue chu ban she, 2004.

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Myriam, Bras, and Vieu Laure, eds. Semantic and pragmatic issues in discourse and dialogue: Experimenting with current dynamic theories. Elsevier, 2001.

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Verschueren, Jef. Ideology in language use: Pragmatic guidelines for empirical research. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Bartsch, Sabine. Structural and functional properties of collocations in English: A corpus study of lexical and pragmatic constraints on lexical co-occurrence. Narr, 2004.

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Meibauer, Jörg, and Markus Steinbach, eds. Experimental Pragmatics/Semantics. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/la.175.

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Gendler, Szabó Zoltán, ed. Semantics vs. pragmatics. Clarendon Press, 2005.

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Gerhard, Preyer, and Peter Georg, eds. Context-sensitivity and semantic minimalism: New essays on semantics and pragmatics. Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Börjesson, Kristin. The semantics-pragmatics controversy. De Gruyter Mouton, 2014.

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International Workshop on Current Research in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface (1st 2003 Michigan State University). Where semantics meets pragmatics. Elsevier, 2006.

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Katarzyna, Jaszczolt, and Turner Ken 1956-, eds. Contrastive semantics and pragmatics. Pergamon, 1996.

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1963-, Bianchi Claudia, ed. The semantics/pragmatics distinction. Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2003.

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Shibatani, Masayoshi, and Sandra A. Thompson, eds. Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.32.

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Sztencel, Magdalena. Semantics, Pragmatics and Meaning Revisited. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69116-9.

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Yang, In-Seok. Linguistic explorations: Syntax, semantics, pragmatics. Hanshin Pub. Co., 1993.

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Turner, Ken, ed. Making Semantics Pragmatic. BRILL, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9780857249104.

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Making Semantics Pragmatic. Emerald Group Publishing, 2011.

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Making Semantics Pragmatic. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2011.

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Sawada, Osamu. Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers: The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface. Oxford University Press, 2017.

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Sawada, Osamu. Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers: The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface. Oxford University Press, 2018.

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Stalnaker, Robert. Dynamic Pragmatics, Static Semantics. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198738831.003.0014.

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Semantic-pragmatic theorizing took a dynamic turn in the 1970s, but at the time the dynamics remained in the pragmatics and retained a more or less traditional static conception of compositional semantics. Later dynamic semantics built rules for context change into the semantics. This essay argues that the phenomena that motivated the dynamic turn are best explained at the pragmatic level, retaining a notion of propositonal content, and a distinction between content and force. It is argued that while a partial notion of propositional content can be recovered from a dynamic conception of semantic value as context-change potential, some information that plays an important role in the broader explanation of discourse is lost. It is then argued that it is important to retain a notion of speech act force, separated from content.
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Carston, Robyn. Pragmatics and Semantics. Edited by Yan Huang. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697960.013.19.

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A cognitive-scientific approach to the pragmatic interpretive ability is presented, according to which it is seen as a specific cognitive system dedicated to the interpretation of ostensive stimuli, that is, verbal utterances and other overtly communicative acts. This approach calls for a dual construal of semantics. The semantics which interfaces with the pragmatic interpretive system is not a matter of truth-conditional content, but of whatever components of meaning (lexical and syntactic) are encoded by the language system (independent of any particular use of the system by speakers in specific contexts). This linguistically provided meaning functions as evidence that guides and constrains the addressee’s pragmatic inferential processes whose goal is the recovery of the speaker’s intended meaning. Speakers communicate thoughts (explicatures and implicatures)—that is, fully propositional (truth-evaluable) entities—and it is these that are the proper domain of a truth-conditional (referential) semantics.
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Rooth, Mats. Alternative Semantics. Edited by Caroline Féry and Shinichiro Ishihara. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199642670.013.19.

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This chapter presents the semantics and pragmatics of prosodic focus in alternative semantics. Half a dozen examples are given of empirical phenomena that are to be covered by the theory. Then a syntax marking the locus, scope, and antecedent for focus is introduced. The syntax is interpreted semantically and pragmatically by a presupposition involving alternatives. The alternative sets that are used in the definition are computed compositionally using a recursive definition. Alternatives are also employed in the semantics of questions, and this ties in with the phenomenon of question-answer congruence, where the position of focus in an answer matches questioned positions in the question. A different semantic interpretation for focus is entailment semantics, which uses a generalized entailment condition in place of a condition involving alternatives. The semantic and pragmatic interpretation for contrastive topic uses an additional layer of alternatives. Independent of focus, alternatives are deployed in the semantics of disjunction and of negative polarity items.
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Semantic and pragmatic language disorders. 2nd ed. Aspen Publishers, 1991.

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Akan body parts expressions: Cognitive semantics and pragmatic approach. Adwinsa Publications (GH) Ltd., 2018.

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Jaszczolt, Kasia M. Pragmatic indexicals. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786658.003.0013.

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In this chapter Kasia M. Jaszczolt offers a pragmatic, contextualist account of the meaning of devices used for first-person reference that makes use of the post-Gricean idea of top-down modification of truth-conditional content. On this view, the indexical/non-indexical distinction becomes blurred because expressions on each side of the dichotomy can have indexical as well as non-indexical functions. She demonstrates how indexicality can be ‘pragmaticized’, and how the resulting ‘functional indexicals’ can be represented in her radical contextualist theory of Default Semantics.
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Humorous Texts: A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis. De Gruyter, Inc., 2010.

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Sawada, Osamu. Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198714224.001.0001.

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This book investigates pragmatic aspects of scalar modifiers. Through a detailed analysis of the semantics and pragmatics of comparatives with indeterminate pronouns, positive polarity minimizers, intensifiers, and expectation-reversal adverbs in Japanese and other languages, the book shows that scalarity is utilized not just for measuring a thing/event in the semantic level, but also for expressing various kinds of pragmatic information, including politeness, priority of utterance, the speaker’s attitude, and unexpectedness, at the level of conventional implicature (CI). The similarities and differences between at-issue and CI scalar meanings are analyzed using a multidimensional composition system (Potts 2005; McCready 2010). Two types of pragmatic scalar modifiers are proposed: a higher-level pragmatic scalar modifier, which utilizes an implicit pragmatic scale, and a lower-level pragmatic scalar modifier, which recycles the scale of an at-issue gradable predicate. The book also investigates the interpretations of pragmatic scalar modifiers that are embedded in the complement of an attitude predicate, and claims that there is a semantic shift from a CI to a secondary at-issue entailment in the case of non-speaker-oriented readings. It will also show that there is a phenomenon of “projection of not-at-issue meaning via modal support” in lower-level pragmatic scalar modifiers. Finally, the historical development of pragmatic scalar modifiers is also discussed. This book claims that although semantic scalar meanings and pragmatic (CI) scalar meanings are compositionally different, there is a relationship between the two, and it is important to look at both kinds of meaning in a uniform/flexible fashion.
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Kiaer, Jieun, and Siobhan Chapman. Pragmatic Syntax. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015.

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Tsohatzidis, Savas L. Truth, Force, and Knowledge in Language: Essays on Semantic and Pragmatic Topics. De Gruyter, Inc., 2020.

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Tsohatzidis, Savas L. Truth, Force, and Knowledge in Language: Essays on Semantic and Pragmatic Topics. de Gruyter GmbH, Walter, 2020.

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Tsohatzidis, Savas L. Truth, Force, and Knowledge in Language: Essays on Semantic and Pragmatic Topics. De Gruyter, Inc., 2020.

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Cruse, Alan. A Glossary of Semantics and Pragmatics (Glossaries in Linguistics). Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

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Pragmatic activities for language intervention (PALI): Semantics, syntax, and emerging literacy. Communication Skill Builders, 1992.

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Nikolaeva, Irina. Analyses of the Semantics of Mood. Edited by Jan Nuyts and Johan Van Der Auwera. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199591435.013.3.

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This article examines the semantics of “mood”, both in the sense of the opposition among clause types, that is, “sentential/sentence moods,” or “sentential forces”, and in the sense of the distinction between realis and irrealis, or indicative and subjunctive. It begins by considering the most important sentence moods, namely, declaratives, imperatives, interrogatives, exclamatives and optatives. It then discusses the notions of realis and irrealis or indicative and subjunctive. It concludes by underscoring the importance of a study of interpretive effects in elucidating the interaction between semantics and pragmatics, since the semantics of mood appears to depend on a set of contextual clues which arise from different sources and provide non-conceptual input to the pragmatic process of utterance interpretation.
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Sansó, Andrea, and Chiara Fedriani. Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles: New Perspectives. Benjamins Publishing Company, John, 2017.

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Wang, Ying Xian. On Chinese Modal Particle A: A Pragmatic and Semantic Study. Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter, 2013.

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Madden-Lombardi, Carol. Beyond Aspectual Semantics: Explorations in the Pragmatic and Cognitive Realms of Aspect. Oxford University Press, 2024.

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Feng, Guangwu. Theory of Conventional Implicature and Pragmatic Markers in Chinese. BRILL, 2010.

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Theory of Conventional Implicature and Pragmatic Markers in Chinese. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2010.

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Blome-Tillmann, Michael. The Semantics of Knowledge Attributions. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198716303.001.0001.

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This monograph offers a critical overview of the current debate on The Semantics of Knowledge Attributions. It falls into five main parts. In Part I, the book introduces the reader to the literature on ‘knowledge’-attributions by outlining the historical roots of the debate and providing an in-depth discussion of epistemic contextualism. After examining the advantages and disadvantages of the view, Part II offers a detailed investigation of epistemic impurism (or pragmatic encroachment views), while Part III is devoted to a careful examination of epistemic relativism. Part IV then discusses two different types of strict invariantism (psychological and pragmatic), while the final part of the book, Part V, is devoted to Presuppositional Epistemic Contextualism—a version of contextualism that is argued to provide a more powerful and elegant account of the semantics of ‘knowledge’-attributions than many of its competitors. Each of the views discussed in this book is outlined in detail by offering a clear and precise account of the main principles underlying each view and how they aim to explain the pertinent data and resolve philosophical puzzles and challenges. The book also provides charts outlining the relations between the positions discussed and offers suggestions for further readings.
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(Editor), Susanne Feigenbaum, and Dennis Kurzon (Editor), eds. Prepositions in Their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context (Typological Studies in Language). John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2002.

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Attardo, Salvatore. Humorous Texts: A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis (Humor Research, 6). Mouton De Gruyter, 2004.

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A semantic and pragmatic model of lexical and grammatical aspect. Garland Publishing, 1997.

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Dressler, Wolfgang U., and Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi. Pragmatics and Morphology. Edited by Yan Huang. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697960.013.20.

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Within a theory of morphopragmatics, we give an account of the relationship between morphology and pragmatics starting from two major theoretical premises: first, that pragmatics is not a secondary meaning derived from semantics—on the contrary we assume a priority of pragmatics over semantics—and second, that morphology is capable of a direct interface with pragmatics, not mediated through its semantics. Thus certain morphological patterns may generate autonomous pragmatic meanings, independently of their denotative power. Eligible patterns are primarily evaluative affixes (diminutives, augmentatives, pejoratives), familiarizers, like French -o, and hypocoristics, whose effects extend from the pertinent base word to the entire speech act. Other morphological elements, such as for example the Japanese honorific -masu and the Germanic and Hungarian excessive, limit their pragmatic scope to the word base. Some other morphological patterns are more marginal, for example feminine motional suffixes or pluralis maiestatis.
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