Meaning as Explanation : Advances in Linguistic Sign Theory


Ellen. Contini-Morava
Bok Engelsk 1995 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt
Berlin : : De Gruyter, , 1995.
Omfang
1 online resource (500 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Preface; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction: On linguistic sign theory; Part I Issues of theory and methodology; Theory; Quantitative analysis in Columbia School theory; Meaning, data, and testing hypotheses; Remarks on sign-oriented approaches to language analysis; The purpose of a grammatical analysis; When contact speakers talk, linguistic theory listens; Part II Deixis; Deixis from a cognitive point of view; Deixis in Swahili: Attention meanings and pragmatic function; Deixis and value: A semantic analysis of the Japanese demonstratives; Part III Lexical meaning. - Only vs. just. Semantic integrality revisitedSeeing is believing: Visual categories in the Russian lexicon; Part IV Meaning in grammar and discourse; The -ra and -se opposition in Spanish; Conversational focus; Italian pronouns and the virtue of relative meaninglessness; Acquisition of English articles by native speakers of Spanish; Logical inference involved in interpreting direct message sentences; Author index; Subject index. - Meaning As Explanation: Advances in Linguistic Sign Theory (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs ; 84).
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3110141221

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