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Journal articles on the topic "Semantics and pragmatics"

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Lascarides, Alex, and Ann Copestake. "The Pragmatics of Word Meaning." Semantics and Linguistic Theory 5 (June 12, 1995): 204. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/salt.v5i0.2707.

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In this paper, we explore the interaction between lexical semantics and pragmat­ics. Linguistic processing is nformationally encapsulated and utilises relatively simple 'taxonomic' lexical semantic knowledge. On this basis, defeasible lexical generalisations deliver defeasible parts of logical form. In contrast, pragmatics is open-ended and involves arbitrary knowledge. Two axioms specify when pragmatic defaults override lexical ones. We demonstrate that modelling this interaction al­lows us to achieve a more refined interpretation of words in a discourse context than either the lexicon or pra
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Kecskes, Istvan. "Impoverished pragmatics? The semantics-pragmatics interface from an intercultural perspective." Intercultural Pragmatics 16, no. 5 (2019): 489–515. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ip-2019-0026.

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AbstractThe semantic-pragmatic interface debate is about how much actual situational context the linguistic signs need in order for them to be meaningful in the communicative process. There is evidence that interlocutors in intercultural interactions rely more Some of the ideas in the paper are based on chapter six in Kecskes (2019). on the compositional meaning of linguistic signs (semantics) than contextually supported meaning (pragmatics) because actual situational context cannot help pragmatic implication and interpretation the way it does in L1 communication. At the same time in pragmatic
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Legg, Catherine. "A properly pragmatist pragmatics." Pragmatics and Cognition 27, no. 2 (2020): 387–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pc.20005.leg.

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Abstract Although most contemporary philosophers of language hold that semantics and pragmatics require separate study, there is surprisingly little agreement on where exactly the line should be drawn between these two areas, and why. In this paper I suggest that this lack of clarity is at least partly caused by a certain historical obfuscation of the roots of the founding three-way distinction between syntax, semantics and pragmatics in Charles Peirce’s pragmatist philosophy of language. I then argue for recovering and revisiting these original roots, taking indexicality as a case-study of ho
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Johnson, Cynthia A., and Brian D. Joseph. "Morphology and syntax … and semantics … and pragmatics." Morphology and its interfaces 37, no. 2 (2014): 306–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/li.37.2.08joh.

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Agreement minimally involves interaction between morphology and syntax, as a target’s features vary according to the morphological form of a controller in a given syntactic context. However, semantics can also play a role, and the term “semantic agreement” has been used to describe various constructions where morphosyntactic feature values of the agreement target do not match the formal features of the controller, reflecting instead meaning-based properties of the noun. In this paper, we deconstruct instances of “semantic agreement,” as there is good evidence to believe that more than just the
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LASCARIDES, ALEX, and ANN COPESTAKE. "Pragmatics and word meaning." Journal of Linguistics 34, no. 2 (1998): 387–414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226798007087.

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In this paper, we explore the interaction between lexical semantics and pragmatics. We argue that linguistic processing is informationally encapsulated and utilizes relatively simple ‘taxonomic’ lexical semantic knowledge. On this basis, defeasible lexical generalisations deliver defeasible parts of logical form. In contrast, pragmatic inference is open-ended and involves arbitrary real-world knowledge. Two axioms specify when pragmatic defaults override lexical ones. We demonstrate that modelling this interaction allows us to achieve a more refined interpretation of words in a discourse conte
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Hansen, Maj-Britt Mosegaard. "Semantics versus Pragmatics." Journal of Pragmatics 38, no. 8 (2006): 1323–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2005.10.005.

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Zubeldia, Larraitz. "Experimental pragmatics/semantics." Journal of Pragmatics 44, no. 14 (2012): 2100–2103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2012.09.013.

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McNally, Louise. "Semantics and pragmatics." Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science 4, no. 3 (2013): 285–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1227.

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Miestamo, Matti. "Towards a typology of standard negation." Nordic Journal of Linguistics 23, no. 1 (2000): 65–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/033258600750045787.

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Standard negation is the basic sentential negation in a language. This article proposes a typology of standard negation that takes into account the whole negative construction and allows explanation of different negation types by different semantico-pragmatic background phenomena. There is semantic and pragmatic asymmetry between affirmation and negation, and this asymmetry is manifested in different ways in the morphosyntax of negative constructions. The primary division in the classification is between symmetric and asymmetric negation. The asymmetric type can be divided into subtypes accord
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Davis, Steven. "Linguistic semantics, philosophical semantics, and pragmatics." Philosophia 18, no. 4 (1988): 357–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02380648.

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