The Present in Linguistic Expressions of Temporality
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The Present in Linguistic Expressions of Temporality

Case Studies from Australian English and Indigenous Australian Languages

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The Present in Linguistic Expressions of Temporality

Case Studies from Australian English and Indigenous Australian Languages

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This book offers a comprehensive examination of Present Time Expressions (PTEs), illustrating how a more informed understanding of their semantic and pragmatic representations can offer unique insights into the temporal systems of languages.

The volume takes as its point of departure the notion that tenses, aspectual viewpoint markers, and temporal expressions have a semantic meaning, which is further pragmatically enriched and manipulated in use by speakers. Building on this foundation, the book introduces current theories on the linguistic expression of temporality toward better highlighting the need for further understanding of PTEs, encompassing tenses of the present and words such as 'now.' The volume draws on data from Australian English and Indigenous Australian languages to support its goal of arriving at a theory of the flexibility of uses of PTEs and their centrality in language and highlight the implications for future research on pragmatic and semantic change.

This book will be of particular interest to graduate students and researchers in semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, and philosophy of language, as well as those interested in research on Indigenous Australian Languages and Australian English.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
ISBN
9781003803348
Edition
1
Topic
Filología
Subtopic
Lingüística

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. List of Tables
  10. Preface
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. Abbreviations
  13. 1 Introduction
  14. 2 Tense, aspect, and adverbials: Overview of key semantic and pragmatic theories
  15. 3 The temporal semantics and pragmatics of ‘now’ vs ‘then’: Overview of current theories
  16. 4 ‘Now’ in absolute and relative uses: Case studies
  17. 5 Shifted tenses: The Historical Present
  18. 6 Present tenses and shifted uses in discourse: Case studies
  19. 7 Towards a theory of the linguistic present
  20. 8 What now?
  21. Index