Scalar Interpretation in Deontic Speech Acts e-bog
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First Published in 1997. As the title suggests, this book is about the interpretation of scalar terms in commands and permission sentences. Why limit our study of the semantics of this class of lexical items to commands and permissions? In short, because there is more than enough to say about this mere subset of environments. Add to that the fact that reams have been written about scalar implic...
E-bog
273,24 DKK
Forlag
Routledge
Udgivet
18 november 2021
Længde
182 sider
Genrer
Linguistics
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781000526790
First Published in 1997. As the title suggests, this book is about the interpretation of scalar terms in commands and permission sentences. Why limit our study of the semantics of this class of lexical items to commands and permissions? In short, because there is more than enough to say about this mere subset of environments. Add to that the fact that reams have been written about scalar implicature in assertions, whereas relatively little has been said about the use of scalar terms in other types of illocutionary acts.