Accentuation and Interpretation

Informationen zum Autor HANS-CHRISTIAN SCHMITZ is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His research focuses on formal semantics and the pragmatics of natural language. Klappentext Develops a highly original theory of accentuation in which accentuation serves the mere pragmatic function of making utterances well comprehensible. Semantic effects of accentuation are explained as epiphenomena of pragmatic accentuation. The theory is formally elaborated in a model-theoretic framework and experimentally justified. Zusammenfassung Develops a highly original theory of accentuation in which accentuation serves the mere pragmatic function of making utterances well comprehensible. Semantic effects of accentuation are explained as epiphenomena of pragmatic accentuation. The theory is formally elaborated in a model-theoretic framework and experimentally justified. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction: Pragmatic and Semantic Effects of Accentuation Optimal Accentuation Cooperative Information Exchange Reconstruction of Messages Optimal Accentuation vs. Focus Accentuation Summary References Index

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Acknowledgements Introduction: Pragmatic and Semantic Effects of Accentuation Optimal Accentuation Cooperative Information Exchange Reconstruction of Messages Optimal Accentuation vs. Focus Accentuation Summary References Index

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• Authors: H Schmitz, H. Schmitz, Hans-Christian Schmitz
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.01.2008
• EAN: 9780230002531
• ISBN: 978-0-230-00253-1
• No. of pages: 233
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition; Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics; Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition; Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Sprache und Sprachwissenschaft, B, Semiotik und Semiologie, Pragmatics, Semiotics, Language: reference & general, Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft, Literary reference works, Philology, Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics