From Cognitive Semantics to Lexical Pragmatics: The Functional Polysemy of Discourse Particles

by Kerstin Fischer

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ISBN-13:	9783110168761
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	09/18/2000
Edition description:	Reprint 2013
Pages:	383
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Frontmatter — Acknowledgements — Contents — Chapter 1. Introduction: The domain — Chapter 2. Contexts and categories: Functional interpretation — Chapter 3. Conceptual background frame: Evidence from extra-linguistic variables — Chapter 4. Lexical analysis — Chapter 5. Lexical representation — Chapter 6. Conclusion and prospects — References — Appendix A: Questionnaire — Appendix B: DATR Program — Index

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In work carried out principally at the University of Bielefeld, Fischer examines small items in English such as , , , or and in German such as , , , or , which are grammatically peripheral but may fulfill a broad range of functions. He is concerned with the problem of polysemy, the occurrence of more-or-less discrete and unitary bundles of semantic properties associated with particular word forms. He basically wants to account for the fact that a particular discourse particle lexeme may get different interpretations that are perceived as related in some way. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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