Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics

Japanese and Beyond

Elin McCready, Katsuhiko Yabushita, Kei Yoshimoto (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

374 Seiten

2014
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-017-8812-0 (ISBN)

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This volume presents an exploration of a wide variety of new formal methods from computer science, biology and economics that have been applied to problems in semantics and pragmatics in recent years. Many of the contributions included focus on data from East Asian languages, particularly Japanese and Korean. The collection reflects on a range of new empirical issues that have arisen, including issues related to preference, evidentiality and attention. Separated into several sections, the book presents discussions on: information structure, speech acts and decisions, philosophical themes in semantics and new formal approaches to semantic and pragmatic theory. Its overarching theme is the relation between different kinds of content, from a variety of perspectives. The discussions presented are both theoretically innovative and empirically motivated.

1. Introduction.- 2. The Noncooperative Basis of Implicatures.- 3. Meta-Lambda-Calculus: Syntax and Semantics.- 4. Coordinating and Subordinating Binding Dependencies.- 5. What is a universal? On the explanatory potential of evolutionary game theory in linguistics.- 6. Continuation Hierarchy and Quantifier Scope.- 7. Japanese Reported Speech: Towards an account of perspective shift as mixed quotation.- 8. What is Evidence in Natural Language?.- 9. A Categorial Grammar Account of Information Packaging in Japanese.- 10. A Note on the Projection of Appositives.- 11. Towards Computational Non-Associative Lambek Lambda-Calculi for Formal Pragmatics.- 12. On the functions of the Japanese discourse particle yo in declaratives.- 13. A Question of Priority.- 14.Measurement-Theoretic Foundations of Dynamic Epistemic Preference Logic.- 15. A Modal Scalar-Presuppositional Analysis of Only.- 16. Floating Quantifiers in Japanese as Adverbial Anaphora.

Reihe/Serie	Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy ; 95
Zusatzinfo	104 Illustrations, black and white; X, 374 p. 104 illus.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Cross-linguistic approaches • Floating quantifiers in Japanese • Information packaging in Japanese • Japanese reported speech • Japaness discourse particle yo in declaratives • Lambda-calculi for formal pragmatics • Linguistic monads • Meta-Lambda-Calculus • Philosophical themes in semantics • Projectionof appositives • Speech acts and decisions • Workings of natural language
ISBN-10	94-017-8812-X / 940178812X
ISBN-13	978-94-017-8812-0 / 9789401788120
Zustand	Neuware