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E-raamat: Sense and Sensitivity - How Focus Determines Meaning: How Focus Determines Meaning illustrated edition [Wiley Online]

(Northwestern University), (University of Texas, Austin)
  • Formaat: 336 pages
  • Sari: Explorations in Semantics
  • Ilmumisaeg: 05-Sep-2008
  • Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell
  • ISBN-10: 1444304178
  • ISBN-13: 9781444304176
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Sense and Sensitivity - How Focus Determines Meaning: How Focus Determines Meaning illustrated editionSuurem pilt
  • Formaat: 336 pages
  • Sari: Explorations in Semantics
  • Ilmumisaeg: 05-Sep-2008
  • Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell
  • ISBN-10: 1444304178
  • ISBN-13: 9781444304176
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Sense and Sensitivity advances a novel research proposal in the nascent field of formal pragmatics, exploring in detail the semantics and pragmatics of focus in natural language discourse. The authors develop a new account of focus sensitivity, and show that what has hitherto been regarded as a uniform phenomenon in fact results from three different mechanisms. The book
  • Makes a major contribution to ongoing research in the area of focus sensitivity – a field exploring interactions between sound and meaning, specifically the dependency some words have on the effects of focus, such as "she only LIKES me" (i.e. nothing deeper) compared to "she only likes ME" (i.e. nobody else)
  • Discusses the features of the QFC theory (Quasi association, Free association, and Conventional association), a new account of focus implying a tripartite typology of focus-sensitive expressions
  • Presents novel cross-linguistic data on focus and focus sensitivity that will be relevant across a range of linguistic sub-fields: semantics and pragmatics, syntax, and intonational phonology
  • Concludes with a case study of exclusives (like “only”), arguing that the entire existing literature has missed crucial generalizations, and for the first time explaining the focus sensitivity of these expressions in terms of their meaning and discourse function
List of Figures
x
Preface xi
Introduction
1(6)
Intonation and Meaning
7(37)
Introduction
7(1)
Focus
7(3)
Intonational Phonology
10(2)
Focus Projection
12(13)
Questions and Focus
25(3)
The Interpretation of Focus
28(5)
Structuring Discourse with Questions
33(7)
The Quasi/Free/Conventional (QFC) Model
40(3)
Summary
43(1)
Three Degrees of Association: Quasi, Free, and Conventional
44(36)
Introduction
44(1)
The First Degree: Quasi-Association
44(8)
The Second Degree: Free Association
52(16)
The Third Degree: Conventional Association
68(10)
Summary
78(2)
Compositional Analysis of Focus
80(37)
Introduction
80(1)
Compositional Alternative Semantics
81(3)
Structured Meanings
84(3)
Focus with Events
87(4)
Relating the Frameworks
91(4)
The President, the Boy Scouts, and a Trip to Tanglewood
95(20)
Summary
115(2)
Pragmatic Explanations of Focus
117(25)
Introduction
117(2)
Accentless Focus
119(2)
Association with Presupposition
121(2)
Roberts' Account of Focus Sensitivity
123(7)
A Presuppositional Account of Focus Sensitivity
130(10)
Summary
140(2)
Soft Focus: Association with Reduced Material
142(18)
Introduction
142(1)
Second Occurrence Focus: Background
143(2)
Second Occurrence Focus: Experiments
145(4)
Leaners: a Contrast
149(5)
Leaners: an Events-based Analysis
154(4)
Summary
158(2)
Lacking Focus: Extraction and Ellipsis
160(22)
Introduction
160(1)
Extraction
161(5)
Cross-linguistic Evidence on Extraction
166(3)
Analyzing the Extraction Data
169(5)
An Extraction Puzzle
174(2)
Ellipsis
176(2)
Analyzing the Ellipsis Data
178(2)
An Ellipsis Puzzle
180(1)
Summary
181(1)
Monotonicity and Presupposition
182(30)
Introduction
182(1)
Background on Monotonicity, NPIs, and PPIs
182(2)
Polarity Item Licensing by only
184(6)
Polarity Item Licensing by always
190(2)
Monotonicity Inferences
192(5)
A Formal Account of PI Licensing
197(3)
Restrictions on PI Licensing by only
200(4)
Association with Presupposition
204(4)
What Does always Associate With?
208(3)
Summary
211(1)
Exclusives: Facts and History
212(36)
Introduction
212(2)
Positive and Negative Parts of Exclusive Meanings
214(1)
The Prejacent Presupposition Theory
215(3)
The Existential Presupposition Theory
218(5)
The Implicational Presupposition Theory
223(2)
Implicatures for Unembedded Exclusives
225(8)
Denial Isn't Just a River in Egypt
233(5)
The Arroyo Tequila Test
238(6)
Is the Prejacent Entailed?
244(2)
Summary
246(2)
Exclusives: a Discourse Account
248(32)
Introduction
248(1)
The Discourse Function of Exclusives
249(5)
Examples of Scales
254(6)
Formal Analysis
260(4)
Unembedded Exclusives
264(3)
Negated Exclusives and Other Embeddings
267(5)
Association with Focus
272(4)
NPI Licensing
276(1)
Non-association with Presupposition
277(1)
Summary
278(2)
Conclusion
280(7)
The Story so Far
280(2)
What Isn't (Conventionally) Focus Sensitive?
282(1)
Generalizations from the QFC Model
283(2)
Closing Remarks
285(2)
Bibliography 287(14)
Index 301
David I. Beaver is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Presupposition and Assertion in Dynamic Semantics (2001); is co-editor of several books, including The Construction of Meaning (2002); has authored numerous articles for prestigious journals including Linguistics and Philosophy, and Language; is on the editorial team or board of all the three leading journals in semantics; and is co-founder of a new open access journal, Semantics and Pragmatics, supported by the Linguistic Society of America. Brady Z. Clark is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Northwestern University and a faculty member at the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems. He is co-editor (with Beaver, Casillas-Martínez, and Kaufmann) of The Construction of Meaning (2002). He has published in journals including Natural Language Semantics and Language, on topics ranging from semantics to historical syntax and tutorial dialogue systems.
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