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Product Identifiers
PublisherSpringer International Publishing A&G
ISBN-103030137988
ISBN-139783030137984
eBay Product ID (ePID)15038589317
Product Key Features
Number of PagesXv, 279 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameContext, Cognition and Conditionals : a Study at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
Publication Year2019
SubjectSemiotics & Theory, Linguistics / Psycholinguistics, Linguistics / General, Linguistics / Pragmatics
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
AuthorChi-Hé Elder
SeriesPalgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight18.1 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition23
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal415.01835
Table Of ContentChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Conditional sentences, conditional thoughts.- Chapter 3: Biscuit conditionals, conditional speech acts and speech-act conditionals.- Chapter 4: Beyond the conditional sentence and towards cognitive reality.- Chapter 5: In search of linguistic and contextual constraints on primary meanings.- Chapter 6: Routes to enrichment.- Chapter 7: Towards a pragmatic category of conditionals.- 8. The need for a contextualist outlook on the study of conditionals.
SynopsisThis book proposes a semantic theory of conditionals that can account for (i) the variability in usages that conditional sentences can be put; and (ii) both conditional sentences of the form 'if p, q' and those conditional thoughts that are expressed without using 'if'. It presents theoretical arguments as well as empirical evidence from English and other languages in support of the thesis that an adequate study of conditionals has to go beyond an analysis of specific sentence forms or lexical items. The resulting perspective on conditionals is one in which conditionality is located at a higher level than that of the sentence; namely, at the level of thought. The author argues that it is only through adopting such a perspective, and with it, a commitment to context-dependent semantics, that we can successfully represent conditional utterances as they are used and understood by ordinary language users. It will be of interest to students and scholars working on the semantics of conditionals in the fields of linguistics (especially semantics and pragmatics) and philosophy of language.
LC Classification NumberP37-37.5
