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This impressive volume attempts to make an assessment of past achievements, but also to open up new perspectives in the field of pragmatics, exactly ten years after the publication of Searle's seminal Speech Acts. This rich collection presents an unrivaled diversity of topics and approaches united by the possibilities and limitations generic to the field of pragmatics.

Pragmatics --- Congresses --- Congresses. --- -801.56 --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- 801.56 --- Pragmatics - Congresses

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Recently, the investigation of word meaning in utterances has connected two different fields: lexical semantics and pragmatics. A new linguistic discipline, namely lexical pragmatics, is emerging. The eleven papers of the present book constitute a unit in the sense that they have a common aim: to explore the interaction between lexical semantics and pragmatics. The authors examine phenomena such as productive sense extension, regular polysemy, multifunctionality, implicit arguments and predicates, and non-typical anaphoric pronouns, on the basis of linguistic data, for instance, from English, Norwegian, Russian, and Hungarian, as well as using a great variety of frameworks (optimality framework, two-level semantics, the theory of generative lexicon, cognitive grammar, Gricean theory, and relevance theory.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Pragmatics --- Semantics --- 801.57 --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- 801.57 Pragmatiek --- Pragmatiek --- Philosophy --- Pragmatics. --- Pragmatics - Congresses. --- Semantics - Congresses

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Hedging is an essential part of everyday communication. It is a discourse strategy which is used to reduce commitment to the force or truth of an utterance to achieve an appropriate pragmatic effect. In recent years hedges have therefore attracted increased attention in Pragmatics and Applied Linguistics, with studies approaching the concept of hedging from various perspectives, such as speech act - and politeness theory, genre-specific investigations, interactional pragmatics, and studies of vague language. The present volume provides an up-to-date overview of current research on the topic by bringing together studies from a variety of fields. The contributions span a range of different languages, investigate the use of hedges in different communicative settings and text types, and consider all levels of linguistic analysis from prosody to morphology, syntax and semantics. What unites the different studies in this volume is a corpus-based approach, in which various theoretical concepts and categories are applied to, and tested against, actual language data. This allows for patterns of use to be uncovered which have previously gone unnoticed and provides valuable insights for the adjustment and fine-tuning of existing categories. The usage-based approach of the investigations therefore offers new theoretical and descriptive perspectives on the context-dependent nature and multifunctionality of hedges.

Hedge (Linguistics) --- Euphemism --- Pragmatics --- Euphemism. --- Pragmatics. --- Pragmalinguistics --- Hedging (Linguistics) --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Figures of speech --- Semantics --- Linguistics --- Philosophy --- E-books --- Hedge (Linguistics) - Congresses --- Euphemism - Congresses --- Pragmatics - Congresses

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Pragmatics --- -Semantics --- -Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Pragmalinguistics --- Congresses --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Semantics --- Congresses. --- Sémantique --- Pragmatique --- Congrès --- Semantics - Congresses. --- Pragmatics - Congresses. --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Philosophy

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Italian language --- Pragmatics --- Linguistics --- Congresses. --- -Linguistics --- -Pragmatics --- -#KVHA:Pragmatiek; Italiaans --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Romance languages --- Congresses --- Philosophy --- #KVHA:Pragmatiek; Italiaans --- Pragmatics - Congresses. --- Linguistics - Congresses. --- Italian language - Congresses.