Evidentials and Relevance

243 Pages·2001·2.63 MB·English

by  Elly Ifantidou

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EvidentialsandRelevance
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
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Evidentials and Relevance
Elly Ifantidou
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1.Semantics.2.Evidentials(Linguitics).3.Pragmatics.4.Speechacts(Linguistics).
5.Grammar,Comparativeandgeneral.6.Relevance.I.Title.II.Pragmatics&beyond
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements xi
Chapter1
Introduction.Evidentials:theirnatureandfunctions 1
1.1 Definingevidentials(cid:4)1
1.2 Thefunctionsofevidentials(cid:4)5
1.3 Linguisticpropertiesofevidentials(cid:4)8
1.3.1 Decodingversusinference(cid:4)8
1.3.2 Syntaxversusmorphology(cid:4)9
1.3.2.1(cid:4)Morphologicalcriteria(cid:4)10
1.3.2.2(cid:4)Syntacticcriteria(cid:4)12
1.3.3 Semanticcriteria(cid:4)13
1.4 Theissues(cid:4)15
1.4.1 Pragmaticinferenceandevidentials(cid:4)15
1.4.2 Truth-conditionalversusnon-truth-conditionalsemantics(cid:4)15
1.4.3 Explicitversusimplicitcommunication(cid:4)15
Chapter2
Speech-acttheory 17
2.1 Speechacts,languageandcommunication(cid:4)17
2.1.1 Speech-acttheory(cid:4)17
2.1.2 Speech-actpragmatics(cid:4)20
2.1.3 Speech-actsemantics(cid:4)21
2.2 Speechactsandpragmaticinference(cid:4)23
2.3 Speechactsandnon-truth-conditionalsemantics(cid:4)28
2.4 Speechactsandexplicitvs.implicitcommunication(cid:4)31
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Chapter3
Griceandcommunication 37
3.1 Introduction(cid:4)37
3.1.1 Griceoncommunication(cid:4)37
3.1.2 TheCPandmaxims(cid:4)39
3.2 Pragmaticinferenceandevidentials(cid:4)43
3.3 Griceandnon-truth-conditionalsemantics(cid:4)49
3.4 Griceandtheexplicit/implicitdistinction(cid:4)53
Chapter4
Relevancetheory 59
4.1 Introduction(cid:4)59
4.1.1 Relevanceandcommunication(cid:4)59
4.1.2 Theprinciplesofrelevance(cid:4)62
4.2 Pragmaticinferenceandevidentials(cid:4)67
4.2.1 ProblemswiththemaximsofQuality(cid:4)67
4.2.2 DispensingwiththemaximsofQuality(cid:4)71
4.2.3 Inferringdegreesofspeakercommitment(cid:4)74
4.3 Relevanceandtheexplicit/implicitdistinction(cid:4)78
4.4 Relevanceandnon-truth-conditionalmeaning(cid:4)83
4.4.1 Conceptualmeaning(cid:4)85
4.4.2 Proceduralmeaning(cid:4)87
4.5 Relevanceandthedescriptive/interpretivedistinction(cid:4)90
4.5.1 Interpretiveresemblance(cid:4)90
4.5.2 Attributiveinterpretiveuse(cid:4)92
4.6 Conclusiontochapter4(cid:4)95
Chapter5
Sentenceadverbials 97
5.1 Introduction(cid:4)97
5.2 Typesofsentenceadverbial(cid:4)97
5.3 Speech-actaccountsofsentenceadverbials(cid:4)99
5.4 Testingfortruth-conditionality(cid:4)102
5.5 Relevancetheoryandsentenceadverbials:
possibilitiesfordescription(cid:4)112
5.5.1 Conceptualversusprocedural(cid:4)112
5.5.2 Explicaturesversusimplicatures(cid:4)115
5.6 Relevancetheoryandsentenceadverbials:
possibilitiesforexplanation(cid:4)117
Tableofcontents ix
Chapter6
Parentheticals 119
6.1 Introduction(cid:4)119
6.2 Speech-actaccountsofparentheticals(cid:4)120
6.3 Testingfortruth-conditionality(cid:4)125
6.4 Relevancetheoryandparentheticals:Possibilitiesfordescription(cid:4)129
6.5 Relevancetheoryandparentheticals:Possibilitiesforexplanation(cid:4)132
6.5.1 Parentheticalsandthedouble-speech-actanalysis(cid:4)132
6.5.2 Scopepossibilities(cid:4)138
6.5.3 Parentheticalsandtruth-conditions(cid:4)146
6.5.4 Pragmaticinterpretationofgenuineparentheticals(cid:4)155
Chapter7
Evidentialparticles 161
7.1 Introduction(cid:4)161
7.2 ‘Hearsay’markersasmarkersofinterpretiveuse(cid:4)162
7.2.1 R7´andinterpretiveuse(cid:4)163
7.3 Tahaandproceduralencoding(cid:4)170
7.3.1 Aspeech-actaccountoftaha(cid:4)172
7.3.2 Truth-conditionalornon-truth-conditional?(cid:4)176
7.3.3 Explicitorimplicit?(cid:4)180
7.3.4 Conceptualorprocedural?(cid:4)187
7.4 Somegenuinehearsaymarkers?(cid:4)193
Chapter8
Conclusions 195
8.1 Evidentialsandpragmaticinference(cid:4)195
8.2 Evidentialsandtheexplicit/implicitdistinction(cid:4)197
8.3 Evidentialsandtruth-conditional/non-truth-conditional
semantics(cid:4)198
Notes 203
Bibliography 207
NameIndex 217
SubjectIndex 221