Overview

This collection of papers celebrates the work of Jeanette K. Gundel, who has contributed to the field of the grammar-pragmatics interface through her publications on the syntactic realization of topic and comment and the cognitive status of referring expressions, as well as by inspiring colleagues to make contributions to the overall field of pragmatics. This volume collects together papers from colleagues and former students on pragmatics and syntax, pragmatics and reference, and pragmatics and social variables. The volume includes papers devoted to explicating the grammar-pragmatics interface, with the focus of the papers ranging from Gricean and post-Gricean pragmatics, construction grammar, and genre theory to formal semantics, as well as papers devoted to expanding on Gundel's own original approach to factors such as the cognitive status decisions underlying speakers' choice of referring expression and the topic and focus decisions underlying speakers' choice of syntactic construction.

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Author:   Nancy Hedberg (Simon Fraser University) ,  Ron Zacharski (University of Mary Washington)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   155
Weight:   0.770kg
ISBN:  

9789027253989

ISBN 10:   9027253986
Pages:   345
Publication Date:   15 May 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. List of contributors; 2. Introduction; 3. I. Pragmatics and Syntax; 4. Lexical subjects and the conflation strategy (by Michaelis, Laura A.); 5. The information structure of it-clefts, wh-clefts and reverse wh-clefts in English (by Hedberg, Nancy); 6. Epistemic would, open propositions and truncated clefts (by Ward, Gregory); 7. It's over: Verbal -le in Mandarin Chinese (by Soh, Hooi Ling); 8. II. Pragmatics and Reference; 9. Knowing who's important: Relative discourse salience and Irish pronominal forms (by Mulkern, Ann E.); 10. The correspondence between cognitive status and the form of kind-referring NPs (by Borthen, Kaja); 11. Context dependence and semantic types in the interpretation of clausal arguments (by Hegarty, Michael); 12. Implicit internal arguments, event structure, predication and anaphoric reference (by Cornish, Francis); 13. 'Switch-polarity' anaphora in English and Norwegian (by Fretheim, Thorstein); 14. What on earth: Non-referential interrogatives (by Polinsky, Maria); 15. III. Pragmatic and Social Variables; 16. A grammar in every register? The case of definite descriptions (by Ariel, Mira); 17. Apologies - form and function: I think it was your foot I was stepping on (by Rundquist, Suellen); 18. Subjectivity, perspective and footing in Japanese co-constructions (by Szatrowski, Polly E.); 19. Index of names; 20. Index of subjects

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