The Semantics-Pragmatics Controversy
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The Semantics-Pragmatics Controversy

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The Semantics-Pragmatics Controversy

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Currently, there is a great number of approaches to the semantics-pragmatics distinction on the market. This book is unique in that it offers a comprehensive overview, comparison and critical evaluation of these approaches. Taking as a starting point the notorious difficulty of differentiating so-called literal from non-literal (or figurative) meaning, it covers a wide range of the key current topics in semantics and pragmatics, e.g., the saying/meaning distinction, minimalism vs. contextualism, unarticulated constituents, indexicalism, (generalised) conversational implicatures, speech acts, levels of meaning in interpretation, the role of context in interpretation, the nature of lexical meaning. Notably, rather than taking a solely theoretical perspective, the book integrates psycho- and neurolinguistic perspectives, considering experimental results concerning the (differences in) processing of the various types of meaning covered. In terms of topics covered and perspectives taken, it is equally well suited for undergraduate as well as postgraduate students of linguistics and/or philosophy of language.

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2014
ISBN
9783110372588
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Language, Context, and Cognition
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Table of Figures
  7. 1 Introduction
  8. 2 Against the Standard Notions of Literal Meaning and Non-literal Meaning
  9. 3 Utterance Meaning and the Literal/Non-literalDistinction
  10. 4 Utterance Meaning and Communicative Sense – Two Levels or One?
  11. 5 Varieties of Meaning, Context and the Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction
  12. 6 Summary
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index