Quotation and Truth-Conditional Pragmatics

ISBN-13: 9780367593490 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 176 str.

Xiaofei Wang

Opis

This book presents a coherent picture of quotation studies and argues that the semantic content of quotation amounts to its contribution to the intuitive truth conditional content of the quotational utterance via two modes of presentation, which are incarnated in the functioning of quotation marks and manifested as use and mention.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations.  Preface.  Acknowledgements.  List of Abbreviations  Chapter 1 Quotation and Use/Mention  Chapter 2 Classic Theories of Quotation  Chapter 3 Quotation and the Semantics/Pragmatics Boundary Dispute  Chapter 4 Truth-Conditional Pragmatics  Chapter 5 A TCP-Informed Semantic Theory of Quotation  Chapter 6 A Trichotomous Construal of the Mention-Dimension of Quotation  Chapter 7 A Trichotomous Conception of the Use-Dimension of Quotation  Chapter 8 Toward Integration of the Two Trichotomies for a Semantic Theory of Quotation  Chapter 9 Conclusion  References.  Index

O autorze

Xiaofei Wang is an associate professor of linguistics at the University of Electronic Science and Engineering of China. Her research interests include truth-conditional pragmatics and the semantics/pragmatics boundary dispute.