[PDF] Top 20 Semantics and Pragmatics -- A New Journal

... The LSA initially planned a restriction that eLanguage journal authors would have to be LSA members, as is the case for Language authors. But, af- ter some negotiation, this requirement was dropped. As Puschmann ... See full document

... A Formal Computational Semantics and Pragmatics of Speech Acts A F o r m a l C o m p u t a t i o n a l S e m a n t i c s a n d P r a g m a t i c s o f S p e e c h A c t s * Eric WERNER University of H[.] ... See full document

... the new improved analysis might be viewed by some with Occamite suspicion, since it involves three interpretive tiers, the semantic and the two pragmatically arrived at understandings, whereas both of the original ... See full document

... Abstract. The article describes semantics and pragmatics of reflexive constructions. Common notes on the semantics of reflexivity are given. Reflexivity reflects specific subject-object relationships ... See full document

... through pragmatics (Recanati 2004; Leonardi Forthcoming)), for utterances (unless we consider some exceptions like idiomatic sentences) the meaning of the unit is mediated by lexical semantics and by the ... See full document

... the semantics and pragmatics sections were inferior to the average values obtained in the general ...affects semantics and pragmatics, although the results of the WAT indicated good premorbid ... See full document

... Abstract This paper addresses the semantics and pragmatics of singular and plural nominals in languages that manifest a binary morphological number distinction within this category. We review the main ... See full document

... This article addresses the notion of linguistic meaning with reference to Kiswahili. It focuses particular attention on meaning typology, with the assumption that a discussion of meaning types can enhance the ... See full document

... Nonetheless, as has already been noted, there is an essential similarity between Kaplan’s and Recanati’s approaches and for the purposes o f the present discussion it is the similarities which are significant. It should, ... See full document

... Thus, the internal common ground is itself a state, embodying what every participant in the conversation takes himself to know.4 The internal common ground differs from the external comm[r] ... See full document

... truth-conditional semantics, an assertion of ‘p or not p’ is equivalent to that of ‘q or not ...itive semantics (Groenendijk & Roelofsen, ...the semantics of an A - NOT - A question is also ... See full document

... In the existing literature, two types of linguistic metarepresentation have been extensively discussed: mention (or 'pure quotation'), in which a linguistic expression is used to represe[r] ... See full document

... a semantics where -e’ encodes that the attitudinal predication is parenthetical — that is, not part of the at-issue proposal (similar to English sentences like “It’s raining, I think”) and instead contributes to ... See full document

... Because of the particular context (say in a classroom, a pupil asks permission to ask a question), the hearer realises that the speaker does not intend to ask simply whether the state of[r] ... See full document

... the pragmatics of CQ readings, which unlike Frana’s analysis offers an explanation also of why some sortal nouns lack immediate set readings, and some relational nouns lack immediate pair-list ... See full document

... our semantics, that is why his credences are contained in the content of ( 27 ...our semantics, her credences are not contained in the content of ( 27 ... See full document

... We will use a represen- tation framework for discourse structure called SDRT standing for Segmented Discourse Representation Theory Asher 1993, and a theory of discourse at- tachment cal[r] ... See full document

... This principle gives rise to the following prediction: children who have already successfully acquired mental terms will hesitate to assign epistemic interpretations to modal verbs (whic[r] ... See full document

... These forms are sometimes included by linguists into the imperative paradigm, making it very inhomogeneous from the structural point of view. The example of an expanded paradigm is the imperative paradigm of F. Simmler ... See full document

... speaker desires to establish as common ground have to be inferred contextually. What we have to consider now is the type of information ne encodes: i. However, this [r] ... See full document