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Stojanovic, Isidora. "The semantics/pragmatics distinction." Synthese 165, no. 3 (2007): 317–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-007-9190-9.

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Gillon, Brendan S. "On the semantics/pragmatics distinction." Synthese 165, no. 3 (2007): 373–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-007-9186-5.

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McKie, John R. "Donnellan's distinction: Semantics versus pragmatics." Philosophia 22, no. 1-2 (1993): 139–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02379812.

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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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García-Carpintero, Manuel. "Recanati on the Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction." Crítica (México D. F. En línea) 38, no. 112 (2006): 35–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2006.466.

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One of the hottest philosophical debates in recent years concerns the nature of the semantics/pragmatics divide. Some writers have expressed the reserve that this might be merely terminological, but in my view it ultimately concerns a substantive issue with empirical implications: the scope and limits of a serious scientific undertaking, formal semantics. In this critical note I discuss two arguments by Recanati: his main methodological argument —viz. that the contents posited by what he calls ‘literalists’ (which are, on my own view, the very same ones that theoreticians in the formal semanti

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Stotts, Megan Henricks. "Toward a sharp semantics/pragmatics distinction." Synthese 197, no. 1 (2018): 185–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1733-8.

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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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Pouscoulous, Nausicaa, and Frédéric Goubier. "Virtus sermonis and the semantics-pragmatics distinction." Vivarium 49, no. 1-3 (2011): 214–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853411x590507.

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AbstractLate medieval theories of language and contemporary philosophy of language have been compared on numerous occasions. Here, we would like to compare two debates: that between the nature of Virtus sermonis, on the medieval side—focusing on a statute published in 1340 by the Faculty of Arts of the University of Paris and its opponents—and, on the contemporary side, the on-going discussion on the semantics-pragmatics distinction and how the truth-value of an utterance should be established. Both the statute and Gricean pragmatics insist on the importance of taking into account the speaker’

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Dever, Josh. "THE REVENGE OF THE SEMANTICS-PRAGMATICS DISTINCTION." Philosophical Perspectives 27, no. 1 (2013): 104–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/phpe.12032.

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CARSTON, ROBYN. "Negation, ‘presupposition’ and the semantics/pragmatics distinction." Journal of Linguistics 34, no. 2 (1998): 309–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226798007063.

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A cognitive pragmatic approach is taken to some long-standing problem cases of negation, the so-called presupposition denial cases. It is argued that a full account of the processes and levels of representation involved in their interpretation typically requires the sequential pragmatic derivation of two different propositions expressed. The first is one in which the presupposition is preserved and, following the rejection of this, the second involves the echoic (metalinguistic) use of material falling in the scope of the negation. The semantic base for these processes is the standard anti-pre

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Camp, Elisabeth. "Sarcasm, Pretense, and The Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction*." Noûs 46, no. 4 (2011): 587–634. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0068.2010.00822.x.

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Popa-Wyatt, Mihaela. "Embedding irony and the semantics/pragmatics distinction." Inquiry 62, no. 6 (2018): 674–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0020174x.2018.1446048.

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Papafragou, Anna. "Figurative language and the semantics-pragmatics distinction." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 5, no. 3 (1996): 179–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096394709600500303.

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Montminy, Martin. "Epistemic Contextualism and the Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction." Synthese 155, no. 1 (2007): 99–125. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-005-2881-1.

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Carston, Robyn. "Linguistic communication and the semantics/pragmatics distinction." Synthese 165, no. 3 (2007): 321–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-007-9191-8.

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Amerini, Fabrizio. "Pragmatics and Semantics in Thomas Aquinas." Vivarium 49, no. 1-3 (2011): 95–126. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853411x590453.

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AbstractThomas Aquinas’s account of the semantics of names is based on two fundamental distinctions: the distinction between a name’s mode of signifying and the signified object, and that between the cause and the goal of a name’s signification, i.e. that from which a name was instituted to signify and that which a name actually signifies. Thomas endows names with a two-layer signification: names are introduced into language to designate primarily conceptions of extramental things and secondarily the particular extramental things referred to by such conceptions. On such a ‘conceptualistic’ acc

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Leclercq, Benoît. "Semantics and pragmatics in Construction Grammar." Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 34 (2020) 34 (December 31, 2020): 225–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/bjl.00048.lec.

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Abstract This squib provides a theoretical discussion on the use of the terms semantics and pragmatics in Construction Grammar. In the literature, the difference between semantics and pragmatics is often conceptualized either in terms of conventionality or in terms of truth-conditionality (Huang 2014, 299). It will be shown that, even though constructionists claim that there is no semantics–pragmatics distinction, both these underlying concepts are central to the study of constructions. Therefore, the aim is twofold. First, in keeping with Cappelle (2017), it will be argued that constructionis

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Nickel, Bernhard. "Saying and doing: The role of semantics in the use of generic sentences." Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 57, no. 2 (2012): 289–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008413100004783.

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AbstractThis article discusses semantic theories of generic sentences that seek to tie their meaning closely to their use, rather than giving more traditional truth-conditional semantic treatments. It focuses on McConnell-Ginet’s recent work and defends truth-conditional approaches combined with a traditional semantics-pragmatics distinction.

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Carston, Robyn. "The Explicit/Implicit Distinction in Pragmatics and the Limits of Explicit Communication." International Review of Pragmatics 1, no. 1 (2009): 35–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187731009x455839.

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AbstractThis paper has two main parts. The first is a critical survey of ways in which the explicit/implicit distinction has been and is currently construed in linguistic pragmatics, which reaches the conclusion that the distinction is not to be equated with a semantics/pragmatics distinction but rather concerns a division within communicated contents (or speaker meaning). The second part homes in on one particular way of drawing such a pragmatically-based distinction, the explicature/implicature distinction in Relevance Theory. According to this account, processes of pragmatic enrichment play

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Kashtan, David. "Groundwork for a pragmatics for formalized languages." Semiotica 2021, no. 240 (2021): 211–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2021-0022.

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Abstract The use-mention distinction is elaborated into a four-way distinction between use, formal mention, material mention and pragmatic mention. The notion of pragmatic mention is motivated through the problem of monsters in Kaplanian indexical semantics. It is then formalized and applied in an account of schemata in formalized languages.

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Paolucci, Claudio. "The distinction between semantics and pragmatics: The point of view of semiotics." Intercultural Pragmatics 18, no. 3 (2021): 293–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ip-2021-2014.

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Abstract In this paper I will try to outline the reasons why, in order to understand the life and the nature of meaning, the semiotic tradition has always thought that it was better not to separate semantics and pragmatics. I will first reconstruct the history of this idea, grounded in Pragmatism and in Structural Linguistics. Later, I will deal with its first formulation in A Theory of Semiotics by Umberto Eco. In the second part of the paper, I will work on the idea by Ferdinand de Saussure that meanings are values, that is, indeterminate entities whose identity is determined only through re

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Declerck, Renaat, and Susan Reed. "The semantics and pragmatics of unless." English Language and Linguistics 4, no. 2 (2000): 205–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s136067430000023x.

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In this article the authors examine six different analyses of the meaning of unless that have been argued in the literature, and present a new analysis in which a careful distinction is made between the semantic meaning and the pragmatic interpretations of unless. Contrary to the common belief that unless cannot be used in irrealis conditionals, it is shown that unless can actually be used in two different senses there, one in which it alternates with except if, but not if . . . not (e.g. He wouldn't have done it {unless I had / except if I had / *if I hadn't} asked him to, and I didn't) and o

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Simons, Mandy. "Dynamic Pragmatics, or. Why We Shouldn't be Afraid of Embedded Implicature." Semantics and Linguistic Theory 21 (September 3, 2011): 609. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/salt.v21i0.2593.

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This paper examines a particular case of embedded pragmatic effect, here dubbed "local pragmatic enrichment". I argue that local enrichment is fairly easily accommodated within semantic theories which take content to be structured. Two standard approaches to dynamic semantics, DRT and Heimian CCS, are discussed as candidates. Focusing on cases of local enrichment of disjuncts in clausal disjunctions, I point out that in these cases, local enrichment is driven by global felicity requirements, demonstrating that the local/global distinction is not a simple dichotomy.

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Kudryavtseva, Mariya I. "Referentiality of event in postmodern fictional discourse: pragmatics and semantics." Current Issues in Philology and Pedagogical Linguistics, no. 1(2021) (March 25, 2021): 181–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.29025/2079-6021-2021-1-181-190.

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The article is devoted to the study of postmodern fictional discourse referentialism in terms of pragmatics and semantics. Postmodern fictional discourse eliminates the oppositions of different narrative perspectives, which entails a non-distinction of the author’s narrative and the characters’ speech. The relevance of the article arises from the need to identify the communicative parameters of the creator of fictional discourse and its recipient from the standpoint of the cognitive and discursive linguistic paradigm, but it should be noted that both sides of fictional communication are free i

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Джарбо Сaмер Омар. "The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface: The Case of the Singular Feminine Demonstrative in Jordanian Arabic." East European Journal of Psycholinguistics 4, no. 1 (2017): 63–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.29038/eejpl.2017.4.1.jar.

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The aim in this study is to investigate the interface between semantics and pragmatics in relation to the use of the indexical demonstrative ‘haay’ ‘this-S.F.’ in Jordanian Arabic (JA). It is argued here that an analysis of meaning in relation to context-sensitivity inherent in the use of ‘haay’ can give evidence to the view that semantic and pragmatic processes can be distinguished from each other. I have found that the meaning of ‘haay’ consists of three distinct levels: linguistic, semantic, and pragmatic meaning. The denotational and conventional senses of ‘haay’ comprise its linguistic me

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Kasper, Gabriele. "Pragmatic transfer." Interlanguage studies bulletin (Utrecht) 8, no. 3 (1992): 203–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026765839200800303.

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Throughout the short life of interlanguage pragmatics as a subdiscipline of second language research, it has been a virtually uncontested assumption that non-native speakers' comprehension and production of linguistic action is considerably influenced by their L1 pragmatic knowledge. The literature strongly supports this hypothesis. However, whereas there has been a lively controversy about the role of transfer in the traditional core areas of second language research (syntax, morphology, semantics), there has been little theoretical and methodological debate about transfer in interlanguage pr

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Gregersen, Niels Henrik. "Samtidsteologiens fokus og horisont." Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift 74, no. 2 (2011): 167–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/dtt.v74i2.106382.

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In this response to Asle Eikrem’s discussion of my program for “Systematic Theology as Contemporary Theology” (DTT 2008, 290-310), I lay out my principled reasons for maintaining the distinction between Theology1, 2 and 3. While I find Eikrem’s proposals concerning the relation between the semantics and the pragmatics in Theology1 revealing, I argue that systematic theology should not be understood as a purely theoretical metaphysics.

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Taglicht, Josef. "Actually, there's more to it than meets the eye." English Language and Linguistics 5, no. 1 (2001): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1360674301000119.

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This article presents a reanalysis of the syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology of the word actually. It endeavours to show, among other things, that in addition to the distinction between Greenbaum'’s ‘disjunct’ and his ‘adjunct’, we seem to require here a distinction between two kinds of ‘disjunct’: (i) a ‘propositional modifier’ and (ii) a ‘discourse modifier’ (or ‘discourse transition marker’). An examination of constraints on the use of actually as a propositional modifier suggests the need for a feature ‘assertive/nonassertive’, not just on root sentences but on all structures tha

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Michael, Lev. "Nanti self-quotation." Pragmatics and Society 3, no. 2 (2012): 321–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.3.2.09lev.

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This paper describes two quotation strategies employed by speakers of Nanti, one involving grammaticalized quotatives and another involving complement-taking verbs of saying, and examines the consequences of the pragmatic differences between these strategies for two key questions in the study of evidentiality: first, the importance of degree of grammaticalization in delimiting ‘evidentials’; and second, the importance of the analytical distinction between epistemic modal and ‘source of information’ evidential meanings. Nanti use of the two quotation strategies is specifically analyzed in the c

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Albayati, Abbas Fadhil. "A Cognitive Semantic Analysis of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'." Al-Adab Journal, no. 113 (September 15, 2015): 25–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.31973/aj.v0i113.1437.

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Although the field of natural language processing has made considerable strides in the automated processing of standard language, the language of poetry still causes great difficulty. Normally, when we understand human language, we combine the meaning of individual words into larger units in a compositional manner. However, understanding a poem often involves an interpretive adjustment and different conceptualisation strategies of individual words. This paper aims at exploring the cognitive and semantic bases of Milton's masterpiece 'Paradise Lost' through a combination of theoretical wo

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Falkum, Ingrid Lossius. "A relevance-theoretic analysis of concept narrowing and broadening in English and Norwegian original texts and translations." Languages in Contrast 7, no. 2 (2007): 119–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lic.7.2.03fal.

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This paper studies the lexical-pragmatic processes of narrowing and broadening of conceptual content in the relation between original texts and their corresponding translations in the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus (ENPC) from a relevance-theoretic point of view. It is suggested that, in at least some cases, translations can be seen as a kind of mirror reflecting the pragmatic processes at work in lexical interpretation. A translator may choose to render an underspecified concept encoded in a source text by a word that more closely encodes the interpretation given to the concept in question

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Padilla Gálvez, Jesús. "La distinción referencial - atributiva en las descripciones definidas." Estudios Humanísticos. Filología, no. 15 (December 1, 1993): 153. http://dx.doi.org/10.18002/ehf.v0i15.4251.

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<p>Con este trabajo pretendo ilustrar un rompecabezas interesante de la semántica moderna. Se presenta una escueta introducción en el programa de Russell y que articula el inicio de la historia de la semántica moderna. Los trabajos de K. Donnellan incrementan los programas de Strawson al usar el punto de vista pragmático y al defender la integración de la semántica en la pragmática como viene a ser expuesto por éste último. Donnellan distingue dos clases de uso de las descripciones diferenciadas no según su sintaxis sino en base a su circunstancia. Estas son usadas atributivamente o refe

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Nieuwland, Mante S., and Jos J. A. Van Berkum. "When Peanuts Fall in Love: N400 Evidence for the Power of Discourse." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 18, no. 7 (2006): 1098–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2006.18.7.1098.

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In linguistic theories of how sentences encode meaning, a distinction is often made between the context-free rule-based combination of lexical-semantic features of the words within a sentence (“semantics”), and the contributions made by wider context (“pragmatics”). In psycholinguistics, this distinction has led to the view that listeners initially compute a local, context-independent meaning of a phrase or sentence before relating it to the wider context. An important aspect of such a two-step perspective on interpretation is that local semantics cannot initially be overruled by global contex

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García-Carpintero, Manuel. "Lying vs. misleading: The adverbial account." Intercultural Pragmatics 18, no. 3 (2021): 391–413. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ip-2021-2011.

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Abstract We intuitively make a distinction between lying and misleading. As several philosophers have pointed out, on the account of this distinction favored here – the adverbial account, as I’ll call it – it provides evidence on the theoretical notion of what is said and the related theoretical distinction between semantics and pragmatics. For, on that account, the distinction tracks whether or not the content and the assertoric force with which it is presented are semantically conveyed. On an alternative (assertoric) commitment account, the difference between lying and misleading is predicat

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Padilla Cruz, Manuel. "Towards a relevance-theoretic approach to the diminutive morpheme." Russian Journal of Linguistics 24, no. 4 (2020): 774–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2687-0088-2020-24-4-774-795.

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This paper intends to lay the foundations for a relevance-theoretic approach to the diminutive morpheme. In many languages, this morpheme is attached to nouns, adjectives, adverbs or verbs. It frequently nuances their referents by providing information concerning the smallness, littleness or scarcity of the size, amount or degree of their referents. However, the semantics of this morpheme cannot always be connected with such notions. In Spanish, for example, it is often used in order to intensify, express approximation or pejoration, show affection or modesty, suggest intimacy or mitigate verb

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Bickel, Balthasar. "In the Vestibule of Meaning." Studies in Language 19, no. 1 (1995): 73–127. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.19.1.04bic.

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In the Belhare (Tibeto-Burman) verb, morphotactics and allomorphy, but not morpheme semantics, are sensitive to a distinction between direct (1>2, 1>3, 2>3, 3SG>3) and inverse (3NS>3, 3>2, 3>1, 2>1) participant configurations. Comparison of this phenomenon with Cree (Algonquian) and rGya-ro (Tibeto-Burman) calls for a distinction of morphemic and sub- or supra-morphemic inversion. The difference is semiotically interpreted in a general theory of "Resonance Morphology". The smallest resonant pattern is either compositional and meaningful, i.e. a "morpheme", or predictabl

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Diedrichsen, Elke. "On the interaction of core and emergent common ground in Internet memes." Pragmatics of Internet Memes 3, no. 2 (2019): 223–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ip.00033.die.

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Abstract Internet memes are meaningful objects of diverse shapes that spread across networks of mediated participation (term from Milner 2012: 10). The distribution and reception of memes bears aspects of communicative interaction, because memes establish usage conventions. This paper will be concerned with the pragmatics of Internet memes. Given that flexibility, novelty and originality are driving forces in meme culture, the question arises how traditional pragmatic notions like recipient design and common ground can be said to apply for the interaction with memes. Kecskes’ (2008, 2010, 2012

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Tenny, Carol L. "How motion verbs are special." Pragmatics and Cognition 3, no. 1 (1995): 31–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pc.3.1.06ten.

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This paper focuses on a distinction between two kinds of information in verb meanings: a highly structured, templatic part of the meaning, based on aspectual properties of the verb, and apart of the meaning which contributes to filling gaps in the templatic information. The two kinds of information differ in the nature and degree of connections to encyclopedic world knowledge. This demarcation between the two kinds of information is related to the semantics/ pragmatics distinction, and may be clearly articulated using Krifka's (1992) formalization of a homomorphism from objects to events. Moti

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Meibauer, Jörg. "A truth that’s told with bad intent." New Perspectives on Utterance Interpretation and Implicit Contents 28 (November 28, 2014): 97–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/bjl.28.05mei.

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In recent years, a lively debate has emerged about the question of correctly defining lying. Two strands of argumentation have evolved in the philosophy of language: First, the idea that lying is not necessarily connected to an intention of the speaker to deceive the hearer (e.g., Carson 2010); second, the idea that there is a fundamental distinction between lying and mere misleading (e.g., Saul 2012). This paper deals with both assumptions from the vantage point of the semantics-pragmatics interface and relates them to the question of how it is possible to lie while drawing on implicit conten

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Tabakowska, Elżbieta. "Ikoniczność: podobieństwo i „tertium comparationis"." Przestrzenie Teorii, no. 2 (April 15, 2007): 103–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/pt.2003.2.7.

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The paper analyses the phenomenon of iconicity in relation to its significance for literary theory. One of the key notions in modern philosophy of language and linguistics, iconicity is seen as a motivated interrelation beween form and meaning. In this, it is akin to mimesis - one of the basic concepts in theory of literature. Based on similarity, iconicity requires a conscious presence of an observer, who discovers and states the existence of similarity by reference to a tertium comparationis. It occurs as an effect of a mental process, as an interface bewteen semantics (the level of conventi

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Akkurt, Vladyslava, Tetiana Korolova, and Oleksandra Popova. "Persuasion prosody in prosecutor’s speech: Ukrainian and english." Revista Amazonia Investiga 10, no. 47 (2021): 125–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.34069/ai/2021.47.11.13.

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This paper presents the research of prosodic means conveying the persuasion modality in a prosecutor’s speech in court. The material under study consists of English and Ukrainian speeches of the prosecutors (the total duration time is 16 hours). The results of the experimental material examination demonstrate common and specific characteristics of prosody components (melody, loudness, tempo, timber and sentence stress) in English and Ukrainian. Pragmatics of prosody semantics and correlation between its parameters have been proved. It has been stated that in both English and Ukrainian an utter

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Gurgel, Diogo de França. "Wittgenstein on Metaphor." Scripta 20, no. 40 (2016): 156. http://dx.doi.org/10.5752/p.2358-3428.2016v20n40p156.

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<p>In this work, I examine Wittgenstein’s possible contributions to an elucidation of the grammatical status of certain metaphors – often found in theoretical and speculative texts – which resist an approach based on the assumption of a clear split between the fields of pragmatics and semantics. I take as examples of works that depart from this assumption Elizabeth Camp’s Contextualism, Metaphor and What is said (which explores the lines suggested by Paul Grice), and John Searle’s Expression and Meaning. Both rely on a distinction between speaker’s meaning (utterance meaning) and sentenc

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Singnoi, Unchalee. "Noun Classifier Constructions in Thai: a Case Study in Construction Grammar." MANUSYA 11, no. 1 (2008): 76–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26659077-01101006.

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This paper is a study in the framework of Construction Grammar that seeks for how much information grammatical units like noun classifier constructions in Thai can reveal and why such information must be presented as distinctive grammatical properties. The findings show that noun classifiers, occurring in nominal phrases, have a large number of grammatical functions not restricted to syntax but encompassing semantics and pragmatics, as well. They function syntactically by constituting numeric phrases, standing for head nouns, substituting for nouns, acting as the heads of modifier construction

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Bezuidenhout, A. "Pragmatics, semantic undetermination and the referential/attributive distinction." Mind 106, no. 423 (1997): 375–409. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mind/106.423.375.

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Semenenko, Natalia N. "Axiology of Proverbs in the Focus of the Problem of Cognitive-discursive Modeling of Semantics of Russian Proverbs." RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics 11, no. 2 (2020): 213–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-2299-2020-11-2-213-232.

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The article is devoted to the analysis of the problem of determining the value factor in the semantic structure of proverbs in relation to the problem of cognitive-pragmatic modeling of proverbial semantics. The relevance of the appeal to the value component of paremic semantics is due to the approach to solving the problems of semantics of signs of indirect-derived nomination in the system “Language - text - discourse”, which has already become traditional for anthropocentric linguistics. Paremia is considered as a syncretic sign that combines the properties of a texteme (a language sign) and

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Escandell-Vidal, Victoria. "Intonation and Evidentiality in Spanish Polar Interrogatives." Language and Speech 60, no. 2 (2017): 224–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0023830917698178.

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Three different nuclear pitch accents can be found in Castilian Spanish polar interrogatives. In addition to the ‘canonical’ low-rise pattern, there are two marked interrogative contours featuring high-rise and rise–fall pitch accents. The aim of this paper is to explain how each contour contributes to the interpretation of the utterance in which they occur. I argue that this contribution is to be sought at the semantic, not at the pragmatic-illocutionary, attitudinal-level. My proposal is that the low-rise contour is the expression of unspecified sentence polarity (corresponding to the interr

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Borchmann, Simon. "Utterances as tool-mediated specifications of affordances - ecological pragmatics." Psychology of Language and Communication 22, no. 1 (2018): 124–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/plc-2018-0006.

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Abstract The established descriptions of information structure assume that the basic cognitive unit is a categorization, and that the basic semantic structure is a predication. Descriptions based on these assumptions, however, cannot provide an adequate analysis of certain types of utterances that form a part of activities. The article presents a solution to this problem based on Wittgenstein’s private language argument and the concept of information in Gibson's theory of affordances. The basic cognitive assumption is that performers of activities attend to variations in the environment, for e

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Rispoli, Matthew. "The mosaic acquisition of grammatical relations." Journal of Child Language 18, no. 3 (1991): 517–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000900011235.

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ABSTRACTThe view that grammatical relations have substantial essence, designated as ‘subject’ or ‘object’ has difficulty in accounting for the variety of naturally acquirable grammatical relations. The acquisition of grammatical relations is examined from a theoretical framework, ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR, in which grammatical relations are decomposed into two separate types of structure: logical (semantic) structure and information (pragmatic) structure. The acquisition of grammatical relations from four languages is compared: (1) the definite accusative suffix and pragmatically motivated wo

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Wybraniec-Skardowska, Urszula. "On Language Adequacy." Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 40, no. 1 (2015): 257–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2015-0013.

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Abstract The paper concentrates on the problem of adequate reflection of fragments of reality via expressions of language and inter-subjective knowledge about these fragments, called here, in brief, language adequacy. This problem is formulated in several aspects, the most general one being: the compatibility of the language syntax with its bi-level semantics: intensional and extensional. In this paper, various aspects of language adequacy find their logical explication on the ground of the formal-logical theory of syntax T of any categorial language L generated by the so-called classical cate

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Moore, Chris, and Jane Davidge. "The development of mental terms: pragmatics or semantics?" Journal of Child Language 16, no. 3 (1989): 633–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s030500090001076x.

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ABSTRACTThe distinctions between the mental terms, know, think and sure was examined in an experiment with 60 children between three and six years of age. The children were required to find an object hidden in one of two places. Their only clues were two statements involving contrasting mental terms, with each statement referring to one of the possible hiding places. Results showed a significant improvement with age for the know-think and sure-think contrasts, with think treated as a less reliable index of location than both know and sure by four to five years of age. No change with age was fo

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