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36. The distinction between pragmatics and semantics

  • Steven Davis
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The Pragmatic Perspective
This chapter is in the book The Pragmatic Perspective
© 1987 John Benjamins Publishing Company

© 1987 John Benjamins Publishing Company

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface ix
  4. List of contributors xi
  5. Part I. Introduction
  6. 1. The pragmatic perspective 3
  7. 2. Four dimensions of language use 9
  8. Part II. The Bipersonal Dimension
  9. Introduction 29
  10. 3. Contextual exploitation of interpretation clues in text understanding 31
  11. 4. Cross-cultural and developmental sources of pragmatic generalizations 47
  12. 5. Minimization and conversational inference 61
  13. 6. Reference to persons in conversation 131
  14. 7. Avoiding personal reference in Finnish 141
  15. 8. Implicit involvement in interactive writing 155
  16. 9. Pragmatic formatives 179
  17. 10. Complaints 195
  18. Part III. The Audience Dimension
  19. Introduction 211
  20. 11. Context-discourse matching in baby talk 213
  21. 12. Towards a pragmatic approach to modality 229
  22. 13. Communication 239
  23. 14. Pragmatic factors and strategies in discourse production 255
  24. 15. The pragmatics of argumentation 277
  25. Part IV. The Layered Dimension
  26. Introduction 291
  27. 16. A theory of verbal irony and a Chinookan pattern of verbal exchange 293
  28. 17. Introductions of story characters in interactive and non-interactive narration 339
  29. 18. Making arrangements 357
  30. 19. Models in descriptive meaning interpretation 367
  31. 20. Silent speech acts and their cognitive effects 381
  32. Part V. The Temporal Dimension
  33. Introduction 393
  34. 21. Pragmatics and intonation 395
  35. 22. Pragmatic as against grammatical factors in the determination of accent placement 421
  36. 23. Temporal expressions in Korean 435
  37. 24. Stability and change in VN/NV alternating languages 455
  38. 25. Conversational relevance 477
  39. 26. The pragmatic motivation of syntactic and semantic perspective 497
  40. 27. Aspects of the interaction of syntax and pragmatics 513
  41. 28. The pragmatics of indirect anaphors 533
  42. 29. Communicative reference with pronouns 547
  43. 30. Processing connectives and the pragmatics of discourse 567
  44. 31. Cohesion in Hopi narrative 581
  45. 32. Text understanding and lexical knowledge 587
  46. 33. Turns at writing 613
  47. 34. Psychological or communicative reality 649
  48. 35. Where is the meaning of verbal discourse? 667
  49. Part VI. Foundations and Applications
  50. Introduction 683
  51. 36. The distinction between pragmatics and semantics 685
  52. 37. Semantics, pragmatics, and text semiotics 695
  53. 38. Pragmatics and cognition 715
  54. 39. Pragmatics and Wittgenstein 733
  55. 40. Pragmatics and language rehabilitation 755
  56. References 771
  57. Index 829
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