Publishing Partner: Cambridge University Press CUP Extra Publisher Login
amazon logo
More Info


New from Cambridge University Press!

ad

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


Write better papers faster with Questia!

Book Information

   

Title: Multidimensional Semantics of Evaluative Adverbs
Written By: Mingya Liu
URL: http://www.brill.com/multidimensional-semantics-evaluative-adverbs
Series Title: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface
Description:

Multidimensional Semantics of Evaluative Adverbs provides a multidimensional analysis for the lexical semantics of evaluative adverbs: nonfactive evaluative adverbs trigger a conventional implicature, whereas, factive evaluative adverbs not only trigger a conventional implicature but also a conventional presupposition. This analysis proves to be more advantageous than existing analysis in terms of empirical coverage and explanatory power. With the case of evaluative adverbs, the book demonstrates how secondary meanings (e.g. conventional presuppositions, conventional implicatures) interact with primary meanings (i.e. main assertion, or at-issue content). For the first time, a three-dimensional formal language of conventional implicatures and conventional presuppositions is implemented and applied to derive the right truth conditions of sentences with evaluative adverbs and predict their projection behaviors. With a cross-linguistic perspective (focusing on German, English and Mandarin Chinese) and using corpus- and psycholinguistic methods, the book also offers new perspectives on the syntax/semantics/pragmatics of adverbials.

Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Brill
Review: Become a Reviewer
BibTex: View BibTex record
Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
Semantics
Syntax
Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin
English
German

Versions:
Format: Hardback
ISBN-13: 9781781902714
Pages: 254
Prices: Europe EURO 89.95
U.S. $ 124