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4281 results in Semantics and pragmatics

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  • 5 - Using Words to Make Meaning: Ritual Frame Indicating Expressions in Everyday Talk

  • Willis J. Edmondson, Juliane House, Universität Hamburg and the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Daniel Z. Kadar, Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China and Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics
  • Book:
    Expressions, Speech Acts and Discourse
    Published online:
    08 June 2023
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    22 June 2023, pp 74-95

  • Summary

    In Chapter 5, we examine those expressions through which language users conventionally indicate illocutionary acts such as requesting. We define these expressions as Ritual Frame Indicating Expressions (RFIEs), arguing that they are recurrently used to indicate illocutionary acts in specific standard situations with preset rights and obligations for participants. Learning and teaching the use of such expressions can be particularly difficult due to their interactional load and linguacultural specificity.

Constructionist Approaches

Constructionist Approaches
  • Past, Present, Future
  • Tobias Ungerer, Stefan Hartmann
  • Published online:
    22 June 2023
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    20 July 2023
    • Element
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  • Construction Grammar (CxG) has developed into a broad and highly diverse family of approaches that have in common that they see constructions, i.e. form-meaning pairs at various levels of abstraction and complexity, as the basic units of language. This Element gives an overview of the origin and the current state of the art of constructionist approaches, focusing, on the one hand, on basic concepts like the notion of 'constructions', while at the same time offering an in-depth discussion of current research trends and open questions. It discusses the commonalities and differences between the major constructionist approaches, the organization of constructional networks as well as ongoing research on linguistic creativity, multimodality and individual differences. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

  • 1 - A Formal Semantics for Social Meaning

  • Heather Burnett, CNRS-Université Paris Cité
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    Meaning, Identity, and Interaction
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    08 June 2023
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    22 June 2023, pp 1-26
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  • 7 - Building Up Interactional Episodes

  • Willis J. Edmondson, Juliane House, Universität Hamburg and the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Daniel Z. Kadar, Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China and Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics
  • Book:
    Expressions, Speech Acts and Discourse
    Published online:
    08 June 2023
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    22 June 2023, pp 188-233

  • Summary

    In Chapter 7, we provide an introduction into the highest unit in this grammar, discourse, through the analytic unit of Types of Talk. Types of Talk consist of interactional structures, into which speech acts can be slotted. We propose an inventory of speech acts by means of which one can systematise Types of Talk.

  • 1 - Introduction

  • Willis J. Edmondson, Juliane House, Universität Hamburg and the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Daniel Z. Kadar, Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China and Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics
  • Book:
    Expressions, Speech Acts and Discourse
    Published online:
    08 June 2023
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    22 June 2023, pp 1-6

  • Summary

    Chapter 1 introduces the background, scope and objectives of this interactional pedagogic grammar of English. A ‘grammar’ is commonly understood as a body of rules concerning the relations between different parts of sentences of a language. We are attempting to describe language in use, such that we are interested in what speakers do with it when they talk to each other, hence pursuing an essentially pragmatic approach to language.The chapter also summarises the contents of the book and the transcription conventions.

Meaning, Identity, and Interaction
  • Sociolinguistic Variation and Change in Game-Theoretic Pragmatics
  • Heather Burnett
  • Published online:
    08 June 2023
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    22 June 2023
  • Exciting parallel developments have been made in sociolinguistics and formal semantics, yet these two subfields have had very little contact in the past. This pioneering book bridges this gap, bringing together research and methodologies from both areas of study into a new framework for studying the relation between language, ideologies and the social world. It demonstrates how tools from semantics can be used to formalize theories from sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and gender studies, and also shows how tools from epistemic game theory can be used to bring those theories in closer line with empirical studies of sociolinguistic variation and identity construction through language. Engaging and accessible, it highlights how a cross-pollination of ideas in sociolinguistics and semantics can open up a completely new empirical domain of research. It is essential reading for sociolinguists interested in meaning, and semanticists and philosophers interested in language in its social context.

Expressions, Speech Acts and Discourse
  • A Pedagogic Interactional Grammar of English
  • Willis J. Edmondson, Juliane House, Daniel Z. Kadar
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    08 June 2023
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    22 June 2023
  • First published in 1981, Let's Talk and Talk About It is regarded as a cornerstone of research in pragmatics, which laid new and lasting foundations for the teaching of English. Forty years on, this extensively updated version is fully tailored for the 21st century. It provides a pedagogic interactional grammar of English, designed for learners and teachers of English and textbook writers, as well as experts of pragmatics and applied linguistics. The book includes a rigorous pragmatic system through which interaction in English and other languages can be captured in a replicable way, covering pragmatically important expressions, types of talk and other interactional phenomena, as well as a ground-breaking interactional typology of speech acts. The book is also illustrated with a legion of interactional and entertaining examples, showing how the framework can be put to use. It will remain a seminal work in the field for years to come.
The Constructicon

The Constructicon
  • Taxonomies and Networks
  • Holger Diessel
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    20 May 2023
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    22 June 2023
  • It is one of the central claims of construction grammar that constructions are organized in some kind of network, commonly referred to as the constructicon. In the classical model of construction grammar, developed by Berkeley linguists in the 1990s, the constructicon is an inheritance network of taxonomically related grammatical patterns. However, recent research in usage-based linguistics has expanded the classical inheritance model into a multidimensional network approach in which constructions are interrelated by multiple types of associations. The multidimensional network approach challenges longstanding assumptions of linguistic research and calls for a reorganization of the constructivist approach. This Element describes how the conception of the constructicon has changed in recent years and elaborates on some central claims of the multidimensional network approach.

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