Sense and Sensitivity advances a novel research proposal in the nascent fieldof Formal Pragmatics, exploring in detail the semantics and pragmatics of focus in natural language discourse. The authors develop a new account of focus sensitivity, and show that what has hitherto been regarded as a uniform phenomenon in fact results from three different mechanisms. INDICE: 1. Introduction. 2. Intonation and meaning. 3. Three degrees of association: quasi, free, and conventional. 4. Compositional analysis of focus. 5. Pragmatic explanations of focus. 6. Soft focus: Association with reduced material. 7. Lacking focus: Extraction and ellipsis. 8. Monotonicity and presupposition. 9. Exclusives: facts and history. 10. Exclusives: a discourse account. 11. Conclusion
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-1263-5
- Editorial: Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 328
- Fecha Publicación: 05/09/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés