3. The Spanish subjunctive: Procedural semantics and pragmatic inference

Contrast and propositional attitude: A relevance theoretic analysis of contrast connectives in Spanish and English

“…This proposal goes very much in the same line of some research carried out in RT over the last decade, which places emphasis on the nature of explicit communication (see, for instance, Carston, 2002;Wilson, 2004;Wilson and Sperber, 2000). Among the RT analyses of different linguistic units that contribute to higher-level explicatures we find studies on conceptual units such as true parentheticals (Ifantidou-Trouki, 1994), illocutionary and attitudinal sentential adverbials (Ifantidou-Trouki, 1994;Wilson, 1998) and reformulation markers (Blakemore, 1996), in addition to procedural units such as intonation (Escandell Vidal, 1998), mood (Rouchota, 1994;Papafragou, 2000;Ahern, 2004Ahern, , 2005Ahern, , 2006Ahern and Leonetti, 2004) and particles such as ? eh?…”

TAM marking on nominals in Chorote (Mataguayo, Argentine, and Paraguayan Chaco)

“…27 For instance, a more recent version of the non-assertion hypothesis can be seen in Ahern and Leonetti (2004) who, based on Mejías-Bikandi (1994), relate (non-) assertion to an individual's point of view, though not necessarily the speaker's. It has been often argued that irrealis and subjunctive are not the same, since many clauses containing subjunctives do not express "irreality" (see de Haan 2012 for a recent discussion).…”

Om betydningen og bruken av de norske modalpartiklene da og a*

“…Partikkelen da koder ikke et begrepsinnhold, det har i stedet en prosedural semantikk («procedural semantics»). At et språklig uttrykk har en prosedural semantikk (for litteratur om dette, se Blakemore 1987Blakemore , 2002Wilson 2011Wilson , 2016Wilson & Sperber 1993;Escandell-Vidal & al 2011;Hall 2007;Ahern & Leonetti 2004;Fretheim 2000Fretheim , 2011Fretheim , 2014Fretheim , 2015aFretheim , 2015bFretheim , 2017aFretheim , 2017bFretheim , 2018Fretheim , 2019, betyr at uttrykket instruerer adressaten om hvordan det bør trekkes kontekstdrevne slutninger for å oppnå en tolkning av ytringen som gir optimal relevans, altså mest mulig kognitiv effekt for minst mulig prosesseringskostnad (Sperber & Wilson 1986/1995; se min fotnote 3).…”