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An area of linguistic research can be considered mature when the validity of theoretical and empirical results is tested cross-linguistically and when predictions from different languages influence and modify the course of theoretical development. The semantics/pragmatics interface poses a special challenge in this respect because of its interdisciplinary and multi-theoretical nature. This volume attempts to bridge the gap between theory and empirical analysis by focussing on several aspects of the semantics and the pragmatics of Spanish from a variety of theoretical points of view. Some of the papers were selected from those presented at the International Conference "Semantics and Pragmatics of Spanish" (Ohio State University, 1999). Others are invited contributions from leading scholars in the field. Among the topics covered are several that have been the subject of intense debate, whereas others represent subtle data patterns not considered so far. The topics include the proper characterization of tense and aspect, the subjunctive, verbal periphrases, stage/individual level predication, the interpretation of infinitives in embedded and adjunct clauses, the subjunctive mood, demonstratives, quantification of excess, exception phrases, binding phenomena, propositional negative polarity items, particles of politeness, and pronominal doubling. Overall, the analysis of these subjects contributes new findings to prominent theories in the field, such as possible world semantics, relevance theory, mental spaces, type coercion, generalized quantifier theory, dynamic semantics, and the theory of logical form.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Spanish language --- Pragmatics --- Pragmatics. --- Semantics. --- -Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Castilian language --- Romance languages --- Semantics --- Philosophy --- Espagnol (Langue) --- Pragmatique --- Sémantique --- Pragmalinguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Romance Languages

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Fiction --- Literary semiotics --- Pragmatics --- Discourse analysis --- Discourse analysis, Literary --- Analyse du discours --- Discours littéraire --- Pragmatique --- Discourse analysis, Narrative. --- Dialogue. --- Pragmatics. --- Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Discours littéraire --- Dialogue --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Illocutionary acts (Linguistics) --- Speech act theory (Linguistics) --- Speech events (Linguistics) --- Language and languages --- Linguistics --- Speech --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Narrative discourse analysis --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Dialog --- Drama --- Philosophy

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The importance of discourse markers (words like 'so', 'however', and 'well') lies in the theoretical questions they raise about the nature of discourse and the relationship between linguistic meaning and context. They are regarded as being central to semantics because they raise problems for standard theories of meaning, and to pragmatics because they seem to play a role in the way discourse is understood. In this new and important study, Diane Blakemore argues that attempts to analyse these expressions within standard semantic frameworks raise even more problems, while their analysis as expressions that link segments of discourse has led to an unproductive and confusing exercise in classification. She concludes that the exercise in classification that has dominated discourse marker research should be replaced by the investigation of the way in which linguistic expressions contribute to the inferential processes involved in utterance understanding.

Discourse markers. --- Semantics. --- Relevance. --- Pragmatics. --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Pertinence --- Relevancy --- Meaning (Philosophy) --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Lexicology --- Discourse connectives --- Discourse particles --- Pragmatic markers --- Pragmatic particles --- Discourse analysis --- Pragmatics --- Philosophy --- 801.56 --- Discourse markers --- Relevance --- Semantics --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics

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The focus of this volume is on how language is used between adults and children. The results is a volume that will appeal to readers in language development and narrative discourse. Has the potential to become a classic graduate-level text/reference.

Discourse analysis. --- Language acquisition. --- Language acquisition - Parent participation. --- Parent and child. --- Pragmatics. --- Language acquisition --- Discourse analysis --- Parent and child --- Pragmatics --- Philology & Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Child and parent --- Children and parents --- Parent-child relations --- Parents and children --- Children and adults --- Interpersonal relations --- Parental alienation syndrome --- Sandwich generation --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Parent involvement in language acquisition --- Parent participation in language acquisition --- Parental involvement in language acquisition --- Parental participation in language acquisition --- Parent participation --- Philosophy --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Psycholinguistics