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Making Semantics Pragmatic

Turner, Ken
ISBN-10: 0857249096
ISBN-13: 9780857249098

A collection of invited papers that intends to explore the nature of the semantics/pragmatics interface by examining the extent to which the analysis of certain expressions or constructions can be pragmaticised. It contains papers that address the topic of 'making pragmatics semantic'.
Introduction: Preliminary 'sketches of landscapes'
Whatever Happened to Meaning? Remarks on Contextualisms and Propositionalisms
What Refers? How?
Bearers of Truth and the Unsaid
Towards a Radically Pragmatic Theory of If-Conditionals
French Relational Words, Context Sensitivity and Implicit Arguments
Mutual Manifestness and the Pragmatic Marker Ne in Mandarin Chinese
The Use-Theory of Meaning and the Rules of Our Language Games
Say What a Game-Theoretic Approach to the Said/Implicated Distinction
Index


List price: $120.00
Edition: 2011
Publisher: BRILL
Binding: Trade Cloth
Pages: 240
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.10 lbs.
Language: English

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