Query Details
| Query Subject: |
Semantic/Pragmatic Analyses of ''Understand''
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| Author: | Eddy Gaytan | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Discourse Analysis
Pragmatics Semantics Syntax |
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| Query: |
Dear Linguists,
I am researching the cognitive verb UNDERSTAND in English and other languages such as French. I am particularly interested in sentences in which understand takes the WH-word why, plus a clausal object complement like the following: 1. I understand why John V/Ved… 2. I do not understand why John V/Ved… I am interested in semantic/pragmatic/discourse-analysis analyses which explain the information not expressed and pointed to by why, which seems to be crucial for sentences like 1 and 2 to make sense. Or, rather, the cogitator in 1 and 2 is only being truthful if his use of why points to a set of reasons which allow him to understand a proposition. As I said before, I would appreciate any information regarding the verb understand of the WH-word why. |
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| LL Issue: | 23.1110 | |
| Date posted: | 05-Mar-2012 | |
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