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OverviewThis book offers a fresh take on several long-standing issues relating to the (non-)truth-conditional interpretation of epistemic, evidential, hearsay and attitudinal sentence adverbials. Drawing on a wealth of data from English and German, it shows for the first time that all four adverbial classes can have both truth-conditional and non-truth-conditional (parenthetical) readings. A novel account is presented according to which (non-)truth-conditional readings may arise at either the syntactic or the pragmatic level. Couched in relevance theory, the book also re-examines the explicature and illocutionary status of the adverbial qualification and the qualified proposition, and refines the notions of pointhood and at-issueness to provide an original information-structural analysis applicable to not just sentence adverbials but a range of other propositional qualifiers. Finally, the investigation identifies five factors affecting (non-)truth-conditional interpretation: linear position, prosody, the semantics of the adverbial, its information-structural properties and the wider context. The book will be of interest to those interested in relevance theory, the semantics/pragmatics interface, the syntax/pragmatics interface and information structure, as well as for syntacticians, semanticists and pragmatists interested in sentence adverbials, other propositional qualifiers and parentheticality, syntactic and interpretational. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Irina T. Pandarova (Leuphana University Lüneburg)Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Co Volume: 334 Weight: 0.615kg ISBN: 9789027213730ISBN 10: 9027213739 Pages: 254 Publication Date: 27 June 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock ![]() We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsRevisiting Sentence Adverbials and Relevance is a most solid, insightful and timely piece of research. [...] Pandarova has undeniably done an excellent job. Quite convincingly, she has suggested a series of criteria enabling the disambiguation of sentence adverbials. Moreover, she has lent support to repeatedly voiced claims concerning the need to integrate approaches from different fields in order to gain better and deeper insights into the interpretation of sentential components. -- Manuel Padilla Cruz, Universidad de Sevilla, in English Language and Linguistics (April 2024). Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |