Relevance Relations in Discourse - A Study With Special Reference to Sissala

Klappentext This book uses Sperber and Wilson's relevance theory to show that connectivity in discourse is a pragmatic rather than a semantic matter: it results from relevance relations between text and context rather than from relations linguistically encoded in the text. In two introductory chapters! Regina Blass argues that relevance theory offers a more explanatory account of discourse connectivity than do alternative approaches based on notions of cohesion! coherence and topic. In subsequent chapters! she introduces data from the language Sissala and shows how relevance theory can play an important role in guiding and constraining semantic and pragmatic analyses of these data. This approach reveals unexpected results - for example the detection of an interpretive use marker in Sissala! with implications for the analysis of so-called 'hearsay phenomena' in other languages - and leads to an alternative basis for particle typology. Zusammenfassung Using the language Sissala! this book offers convincing evidence that although cultural backgrounds may vary widely! principles involved in utterance interpretation are universal. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations and symbols; Maps; Introduction; 1. What is discourse?; 2. Relevance theory and discourse; 3. The interpretive-use marker ré; 4. Constraints on relevance and particle typology; 5. Baa: truth-conditional or non-truth-conditional particle?; 6. Defining in Sissala; 7. Meanings and domains of universal quantification; 8. Co-ordination and stylistic effects; Notes; References; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Regina Blass, Blass Regina
• Mitarbeit: P. Austin (Herausgeber), J. Bresnan (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521032049
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03204-9
• Seiten: 300
• Abmessung: 153 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Linguisti; Print on Demand; Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; Schule und Lernen; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc