Chapter 1: Alle Wege Führen zum Text -- Chapter 2: The Procedural Approach to Texts -- Chapter 3: Case Study of the Procedural Approach to a Text.The work represents a significant scientific advancement on text linguistics from three different viewpoints. The first chapter provides an overview of the history of text linguistics from a broader perspective than usual, offering a complete referen…
- Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives on Meaning and Communication (Salvatore Pistoia-Reda and Filippo Domaneschi) -- Blindness, Short-sightedness, and Hirschberg’s contextually ordered alternatives: a reply to Schlenker (2012) (Giorgio Magri) -- Remarks on oddness and conjunction (Salvatore Pistoia-Reda and Jacopo Romoli) -- A fine-grained global analysis of implicatures (Robert van Ro…
Introduction by James A. Hampton and Yoad Winter -- Cognitively Plausible Theories of Concept Composition by Lawrence W. Barsalou -- Compositionality and Concepts – A Perspective from Formal Semantics and Philosophy of Language by Francis Jeffry Pelletier -- Compositionality and Concepts by James A. Hampton -- Typicality Knowledge and the Interpretation of Adjectives by Choonkyu Lee -- Concep…
Introduction by Edward L. Keenan, D. Paperno -- The Quantifier Questionnaire by Edward L. Keenan -- Quantification in American Sign Language by Natasha Abner, Ronnie Wilbur -- Quantification in Cantonese by Peppina Lee -- Chicasaw Quantifiers by Pamela Munro -- Quantifiers in Dan-Gwɛɛtaa (South Mande) by Valentin Vydrine -- Quantification in Gitksan by Katie Bicevskis, Henry Davis, Lisa Matth…
Introduction -- Part I: Linguistic Models -- A Feature-based Account of Weak Islands By Christopher Laenzlinger & Gabriela Soare -- On the Syntax and Pragmatics of some Clause-peripheral Positions By Luigi Rizzi & Adriana Belletti -- Two Challenges for ‘neo-saussurean’ Approaches to Morphosyntax By Frederick Newmeyer -- Some Notes on Floating Quantifiers By Genoveva Puskas -- A Pragmatic an…
Preface by F. Poggi -- Part I Pragmatics and Legal Interpretation -- 1. Slippery Meaning and Accountability by Kasia M. Jaszczolt -- Implicitness in Normative Texts by Marina Sbisà -- 3. What Inferentialism tells us About Vagueness in Law by Damiano Canale -- 4. On the Possibility of Non-Literal Legislative Speech by Hrafn Asgeirsson -- 5. The Pragmatics of Scepticism by Pierluigi Chiassoni --…
- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Non-Finite Complements of the Verb Consent in Current American and British English -- Chapter 3: Non-finite Complements of the Adjective Subject in Recent American English -- Chapter 4: The Semantics of to Infinitives and of -ing Complements: a Case Study on the Adjective Ashamed -- Chapter 5: Lexico-Grammatical Creativity in American Soap Operas: a Case…
- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The linguistic expression of motion in language -- Chapter 3: Motion event descriptions a recurrent topic in Spanish discourse -- Chapter 4: Motion events in the speech + gesture interface -- Chapter 5: Investigating learner sensitivity to the path conflation in L2 Spanish -- Chapter 6: Sensitivity to the path conflation in written L2 Spanish -- Chapter 7…
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Meaning and argumentation -- Chapter 2: Three views of modality in Toulmin -- Chapter 3: Relative modality and argumentation -- Chapter 4: Types of conversational backgrounds and arguments -- Chapter 5: Case studies of Italian modal constructions in context -- Conclusion -- Index.This book addresses two related questions that have first arisen in T…
- Chapter 1: Introduction: Text-Based Research and Teaching -- Part I: Text-Based Research in Everyday Social Settings -- Chapter 2: Text-Based Research and Teaching from a Social Semiotic Perspective: Transformative Research and Pedagogy -- Chapter 3: A Month of Climate Change in Australia: A Corpus-Driven Analysis of Media Discourse -- Chapter 4: A (Critical) Discourse Analysis of Alan Greens…