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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod


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Title: The Grammar-Pragmatics Interface
Subtitle: Essays in honor of Jeanette K. Gundel
Edited By: Nancy Hedberg
Ron Zacharski
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 155
Description:

This collection of papers celebrates the work of Jeanette K. Gundel, who has contributed to the field of the grammar-pragmatics interface through her publications on the syntactic realization of topic and comment and the cognitive status of referring expressions, as well as by inspiring colleagues to make contributions to the overall field of pragmatics. This volume collects together papers from colleagues and former students on pragmatics and syntax, pragmatics and reference, and pragmatics and social variables. The volume includes papers devoted to explicating the grammar-pragmatics interface, with the focus of the papers ranging from Gricean and post-Gricean pragmatics, construction grammar, and genre theory to formal semantics, as well as papers devoted to expanding on Gundel's own original approach to factors such as the cognitive status decisions underlying speakers' choice of referring expression and the topic and focus decisions underlying speakers' choice of syntactic construction.

Publication Year: 2007
Publisher: John Benjamins
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Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
Semantics
Sociolinguistics
Syntax

Versions:
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9027253986
ISBN-13: 9789027253989
Pages: 358
Prices: U.S. $ 149