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This set of eleven articles, by linguists from four different European countries and a variety of theoretical backgrounds, takes a new look at the discourse functions of a number of English connectives, from simple coordinators (and, but) to phrases of varying complexity (after all, the fact is that). Using authentic spoken and written data from varied sources, the authors explore the ways in which current uses of connectives result from the interaction of syntax, semantics and prosody, both over time and through diversity of discourse situations. Most adopt an integrative approach in which speaker-listener or writer-reader relationships are viewed as part and parcel of the linguistic properties of each marker. Because it combines functional, generative and enunciative approaches into a coherent whole with a common explanatory aim, this book will be of interest to linguists, corpus-linguists and all those who investigate the semantics-pragmatics interface.

Grammar --- Pragmatics --- Discourse markers. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Connectives. --- Discourse markers --- Connectives (Linguistics) --- Sentence connectors --- Discourse connectives --- Discourse particles --- Pragmatic markers --- Pragmatic particles --- Discourse analysis --- Connectives --- Function words --- Syntax --- Linguistics --- Philology

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The concept of theory of mind (ToM), a hot topic in cognitive psychology for the past twenty-five years, has gained increasing importance in the fields of linguistics and pragmatics. However, even though the relationship between ToM and verbal communication is now recognized, the extent, causality and full implications of this connection remain mostly to be explored. This book presents a comprehensive discussion of the interface between language, communication, and theory of mind, and puts forward an innovative proposal regarding the role of discourse connectives for this interface. The proposed analysis of connectives is tested from the perspective of their acquisition, using empirical methods such as corpus analysis and controlled experiments, thus placing the study of connectives within the emerging framework of experimental pragmatics.

Grammar --- Pragmatics --- Psycholinguistics --- Discourse analysis --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language acquisition --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Connectives (Linguistics) --- Sentence connectors --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Connectives --- Philosophy --- Acquisition --- Function words --- Syntax --- Language acquisition. --- Pragmatics. --- Discourse analysis. --- Connectives. --- Linguistics --- Philology

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In pragmatics, it is widely accepted that the overall meaning of an utterance performed as part of a verbal interchange is basically underdetermined by the meaning of the sentence uttered. What counts as having been said for most contemporary authors goes far beyond sentence meaning. Rather, it has to be considered as a complex utterance level combining semantic knowledge and context-driven, pragmatic information as an integrated whole. The focus of the present book lies on central questions about the nature, the function and the acquisition of pragmatic inferencing strategies. The question of the relation between the explicit and the implicit side of verbal communication and its mutual delimitation is addressed. What is the character of pragmatic inferences, wherever they may be situated in a descriptive model? Are they nonce inferences arising anew in each act of communication, or do we have to conceive of them as based on regularities and conventions? What is an adequate model of the acquisition of the skills which are relevant for mastering the inferential processes leading to an adequate interpretation of utterances? And what is the relation between a theory of pragmatic enrichment and optimality theory with an OT pragmatics as a possible result?

Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Pragmatics --- Pragmatique --- Inférence --- Connecteurs (linguistique) --- Pragmatics. --- Inference. --- Semantics. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Connectives. --- Philosophy. --- 801.57 --- Pragmatiek --- Pragmatik. --- Schlussfolgern. --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Connectives. --- Language and languages - Philosophy. --- Inference --- Semantics --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Connectives --- Philosophy --- 801.57 Pragmatiek --- Connectives (Linguistics) --- Sentence connectors --- Ampliative induction --- Induction, Ampliative --- Inference (Logic) --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Pragmalinguistics --- Reasoning --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- General semantics --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Function words --- Syntax --- Pragmatique. --- Inférence. --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Inférence.