Victoria Escandell-Vidal Manuel Leonetti Aoife Ahern
Although the notion of procedural meaning is found in areas such as discourse markers, reference, tense, modality and intonation, until now there has been no single volume entirely devoted to it. Over 25 years, since the initial proposal by Blakemore, a number of refinements have been suggested, yet some criticisms have also been raised. The role and status of the conceptual / procedural distinction within a theory of human communication and the nature of procedural encoding were in need of reassessment in the light of current research in linguistic theory, cognitive science, experimental...
Although the notion of procedural meaning is found in areas such as discourse markers, reference, tense, modality and intonation, until now there has ...