Quotation and Truth-Conditional Pragmatics

Informationen zum Autor Xiaofei Wang is an associate professor of linguistics at the University of Electronic Science and Engineering of China. Her research interests include truth-conditional pragmatics and the semantics/pragmatics boundary dispute. Zusammenfassung This book presents a coherent picture of quotation studies and argues that the semantic content of quotation amounts to its contribution to the intuitive truth conditional content of the quotational utterance via two modes of presentation, which are incarnated in the functioning of quotation marks and manifested as use and mention. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations Chapter 1 Quotation and Use/Mention Chapter 2 Classic Theories of Quotation Chapter 3 Quotation and the Semantics/Pragmatics Boundary Dispute Chapter 4 Truth-Conditional Pragmatics Chapter 5 A TCP-Informed Semantic Theory of Quotation Chapter 6 A Trichotomous Construal of the Mention-Dimension of Quotation Chapter 7 A Trichotomous Conception of the Use-Dimension of Quotation Chapter 8 Toward Integration of the Two Trichotomies for a Semantic Theory of Quotation Chapter 9 Conclusion References. Index

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• Authors: Wang, Xiaofei Wang, Xiaofei (Associate Professor Wang, Xiaofei (University of Electronic Science an Wang, Wang Xiaofei
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781138090026
• ISBN: 978-1-138-09002-6
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: Frontiers in Applied Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics, Pragmatism, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics & pragmatics