Overview

This volume is a collection of articles which present the results of investigations into the grammar, semantics and pragmatics of deictic expressions in several languages. Special emphasis is placed on contrastive studies that take cognitive and cultural context into account. Both the empirical and theoretical studies focus on the ways in which spatial, temporal, personal and textual entities are conceptualised and referred to. The cognitive approach proves to be a promising perspective combining aspects of perception, reasoning and linguistic expression to reveal what seems to be at the very heart of deictics.

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Author:   Friedrich Lenz (University of Passau)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   112
Weight:   0.530kg
ISBN:  

9789027253545

ISBN 10:   9027253544
Pages:   279
Publication Date:   17 April 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Contents; 2. Deictic conceptualisation of space, time and person: Introduction (by Lenz, Friedrich); 3. 1. 'Addressee effects' in demonstrative systems: The cases of Tiriyo and Brazilian Portuguese (by Meira, Sergio); 4. 2. Deictics in the conversational dyad: Findings in Spanish and some cross-linguistic outlines (by Jungbluth, Konstanze); 5. 3. Non-deictic uses of the deictic motion verbs kommen and gehen in German (by di Meola, Claudio); 6. 4. Origo, pointing, and conceptualization - what gestures reveal about the nature of the origo in face-to-face interaction (by Fricke, Ellen); 7. 5. Two ways of construing complex temporal structures (by Stutterheim, Christiane von); 8. 6. Look here, what I am saying! : Speaker deixis and implicature as the basis of modality and future tense (by Fritz, Thomas A.); 9. 7. The 'subjective' effects of negation and past subjunctive on deontic modals: The case of German durfen and sollen (by Mortelmans, Tanja); 10. 8. Politeness distinctions in second person pronouns (by Helmbrecht, Johannes); 11. 9. Deictic use of demonstrative pronouns in the Rigveda (by Kupfer, Katharina); 12. 10. Towards a unified model of domain-bound reference (by Consten, Manfred); 13. 11. Deixis and speech situation revisited: The mechanism of perceived perception (by Hausendorf, Heiko); 14. Index

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What has become obvious, is that research on deixis has grown out of its traditional focus on the nature of the referent (space, time, person) and is moving on to investigating the more subtle aspects of the process of referring itself. [...] all in all a very stimulating volume. -- Sonja Kleinke, Leipzig, in Anglia, Band 122:4 (2004)

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