Liedtke / Schulze Beyond Words

Content, context, and inference
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-61451-277-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 15, 346 Seiten

Reihe: Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP]ISSN

In pragmatics, it is widely accepted that the overall meaning of an utterance performed as part of a verbal interchange is basically underdetermined by the meaning of the sentence uttered. What counts as having been said for most contemporary authors goes far beyond sentence meaning. Rather, it has to be considered as a complex utterance level combining semantic knowledge and context-driven, pragmatic information as an integrated whole.
The focus of the present book lies on central questions about the nature, the function and the acquisition of pragmatic inferencing strategies. The question of the relation between the explicit and the implicit side of verbal communication and its mutual delimitation is addressed. What is the character of pragmatic inferences, wherever they may be situated in a descriptive model? Are they nonce inferences arising anew in each act of communication, or do we have to conceive of them as based on regularities and conventions? What is an adequate model of the acquisition of the skills which are relevant for mastering the inferential processes leading to an adequate interpretation of utterances? And what is the relation between a theory of pragmatic enrichment and optimality theory with an OT pragmatics as a possible result?

Zielgruppe

Academics, Institutes, Libraries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Liedtke, Frank

Schulze, Cornelia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Introduction: Beyond Words;7
2;Section I. General concepts;15
2.1;Short introduction;17
2.2;1. Communication in the narrower and broader sense. A reconstruction in terms of Sign Theory;21
2.3;2. Pragmatics in Optimality Theory;39
3;Section II. Acquiring inferential abilities;65
3.1;Short introduction;67
3.2;3. Word learning by exclusion - pragmatics, logic and processing;73
3.3;4. Children’s knowledge of scales in the acquisition of almost;97
3.4;5. Relevance inferences in young children: 3-year-olds’ understand a speaker’s indirectly expressed social intention;115
3.5;6. Early pragmatics with words;127
4;Section III. Grammar, meaning, and enrichment;151
4.1;Short introduction;153
4.2;7. Procedures and prosody: Weak encoding and weak communication;157
4.3;8. Pragmatic templates and free enrichment;189
4.4;9. Pragmatic enrichment in adjectival passives: The case of the post state reading;213
4.5;10. Pragmatic inferencing and expert knowledge;237
5;Section IV. Constraints, memes, and constructions;253
5.1;Short introduction;255
5.2;11. Empirical and theoretical evidence for a model of quantifier production;259
5.3;12. Construction as memes - Interactional function as cultural convention beyond the words;289
5.4;13. A pragmatic Pandora’s box: Regularities and defaults in pragmatics;313
6;Contributors to the volume;337
7;Index;341

Über Autor(innen)

Frank Liedtke Universität Leipzig. Cornelia Schulze, Max Planck Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig.