Semantics of Evaluativity

Informationen zum Autor Jessica Rett studied linguistics at the University of Michigan and Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She now teaches theoretical semantics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her primary research interests are degree semantics and the semantics/pragmatics interface, the study of how the meaning of words and language affects the use of language, and vice versa. Klappentext This book focuses on the semantic phenomenon of evaluativity in sentences such as John is tall and its consequences across constructions. It proposes an account based on assumptions that speakers and hearers make about the relationship between the simplicity of a situation and the simplicity of the language used to describe that situation Zusammenfassung This book focuses on the semantic phenomenon of evaluativity in sentences such as John is tall and its consequences across constructions. It proposes an account based on assumptions that speakers and hearers make about the relationship between the simplicity of a situation and the simplicity of the language used to describe that situation Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction; 2 The null morpheme POS; 3 The null morpheme EVAL; 4 Implicature: a brief review; 5 Evaluativity as implicature; 6 Extensions of the evaluativity implicature; 7 Conclusion

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• Authors: Jessica Rett, Jessica (Assistant Professor of Linguistics Rett, Rett Jessica
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.11.2014
• EAN: 9780199602476
• ISBN: 978-0-19-960247-6
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Theoretical; Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 54
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Self-tuition materials (general); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc