Referring Expressions, Pragmatics, and Style

Scott, Kate

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“…Such differences arise from the need to create a contrast and instruct the hearer to choose an appropriate referent [53, p. 152]. As noted by Scott [53], when the choice between demonstratives is marginal, it is the contrast effect itself that is relevant. However, the contrast effect when both tas and anas are possible is difficult to measure as both occur in contexts allowing the speaker/writer to shift the referent to the domain that is further away from the speaker.…”

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Spatial Deictics and Translational Implicitation: Evidence from a Corpus-based Analysis of English and Lithuanian Fictional Discourse

Bartkutė¹

2020

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Based on the typology of universal uses of demonstratives and presumption of translational explicitation, this paper compares and contrasts demonstratives from a semantic and pragmatic perspective. It aims to identify the translation correspondences of the English demonstratives in Lithuanian and contrast their usage in a comparable corpus to determine the cross-linguistic differences resulting from unequal distribution of lexical correspondences in both languages. This paper analyses a self-compiled parallel corpus and comparable corpus extracted from the Corpus of the Contemporary Lithuanian Language to examine the translation effects at the discourse pragmatic level in the rendition of spatial deixis. The translation correspondences highlight the key role of optional implicitation caused by the availability of contextual variants in the textual uses of demonstratives in Lithuanian. The translation results also reveal that the Lithuanian three-way system of demonstratives shows signs of reduction to a two-way system, as there is an analogous distribution between the English distal demonstrative and the neutral (medial) demonstrative in Lithuanian. A comparison of original texts points to important crosslinguistic differences determined by discourse-related factors, such as higher frequencies of demonstratives in the anaphoric and recognitional functions in Lithuanian texts, which is largely determined by the unmarked status of the neutral (medial) demonstrative. While its article-like status is gaining increasing attention in the literature, the present results indicate that the (neutral) medial demonstrative is an optional indicator of identification that occurs as a stylistic and text-building preference and contributes to greater textual pragmatic explicitness of Lithuanian fiction texts.

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Spatial Deictics and Translational Implicitation: Evidence from a Corpus-based Analysis of English and Lithuanian Fictional Discourse

Bartkutė¹

2020

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“…To interpret them and to form an expectation about what he will find on the landing site, the hearer must construct a concept onto which the noun phrase maps. This concept will take the form of a conceptual file containing all of the available linguistic, semantic, logical, and encyclopaedic information about the concept (Scott, 2020). Consider how this act of interpretation is likely to proceed in each case.…”

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“…To derive an explicature for the headline in (7) the reader need only decode the linguistic forms and assign reference to the name Obama. For the purposes of this discussion, I assume the relevance-based approach to reference outlined in Scott (2020). Reference resolution is an inferential process which contributes to the derivation of the proposition expressed.…”

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You won't believe what's in this paper! Clickbait, relevance and the curiosity gap

Scott

2021

Journal of Pragmatics

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“…Such representations behave as mental files where the hearer may store varied information about what the speaker means (Wilson 2011, Carston 2013a, 2013b, Hall 2017. Although that information may pertain to specific characteristics, properties or nuances of their referentse.g., category, shape, size, colour, flavour, style, number, parts, etc.-it may likewise consist of personal beliefs about the speaker and her relation and experiences with, feelings towards and/or stance about what those words refer to (Scott 2019). In relevance-theoretic pragmatics, construction of occasion-specific conceptual representations is regarded as a free pragmatic process.…”

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“…In addition to being more parsimonious, this account would be consistent with the relevance-theoretic description of the interpretation of the explicit portion of speaker-intended meaning as contingent on a series of parallel inferential tasks operating on distinct components of linguistic input. In fact, it is based on recent research that stresses the explanatory capabilities of the lexical pragmatic processes posited by relevance-theoretic pragmatics and their outputs, while showing that other linguistic elements may give rise to similar information likely to be filed in occasionspecific conceptual representations (Scott 2019).…”

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Ad hoc concepts, affective attitude and epistemic stance

Cruz

2022

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In relevance-theoretic pragmatics the lower-level or first-order explicature is a propositional form resulting from a series of inferential developments of the logical form. It amounts to the message the speaker communicates explicitly. The higher-level or second-order explicature is a description of the speech act that the speaker performs, her affective attitude towards what she says or her epistemic stance to the communicated information. Information about the speaker’s affective attitude or epistemic stance need not solely be represented in the latter, though. It could be included as beliefs in the mental files of pragmatically adjusted conceptual representations featuring in lower-level explicatures. Those beliefs would originate as lexical pragmatic processes operate and their representation would be triggered by elements like evaluative morphemes, expressive expletives, insulting terms and evidential participles. Although they may be true or false in their own right, such beliefs would not affect the truth-conditional content of the expressed proposition.

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Referring Expressions, Pragmatics, and Style

Cited by 31 publications

References 77 publications

Spatial Deictics and Translational Implicitation: Evidence from a Corpus-based Analysis of English and Lithuanian Fictional Discourse

Spatial Deictics and Translational Implicitation: Evidence from a Corpus-based Analysis of English and Lithuanian Fictional Discourse

You won't believe what's in this paper! Clickbait, relevance and the curiosity gap

Ad hoc concepts, affective attitude and epistemic stance

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