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Part of a series that offers mainly linguistic and anthropological
research and teaching/learning material on a region of great
cultural and strategic interest and importance in the post-Soviet
era.
This volume offers the reader a singular overview of current
thinking on indirect reports. The contributors are eminent
researchers from the fields of philosophy of language, theoretical
linguistics and communication theory, who answer questions on this
important issue. This exciting area of controversy has until now
mostly been treated from the viewpoint of philosophy. This volume
adds the views from semantics, conversation analysis and
sociolinguistics. Authors address matters such as the issue of
semantic minimalism vs. radical contextualism, the attribution of
responsibility for the modes of presentation associated with Noun
Phrases and how to distinguish the indirect reporter's
responsibility from the original speaker's responsibility. They
also explore the connection between indirect reporting and direct
quoting. Clearly indirect reporting has some bearing on the
semantics/pragmatics debate, however, there is much controversy on
"what is said", whether this is a minimal semantic logical form
(enriched by saturating pronominals) or a much richer and fully
contextualized logical form. This issue will be discussed from
several angles. Many of the authors are contextualists and the
discussion brings out the need to take context into account when
one deals with indirect reports, both the context of the original
utterance and the context of the report. It is interesting to see
how rich cues and clues can radically transform the reported
message, assigning illocutionary force and how they can be
mobilized to distinguish several voices in the utterance.
Decoupling the voice of the reporting speaker from that of the
reported speaker on the basis of rich contextual clues is an
important issue that pragmatic theory has to tackle. Articles on
the issue of slurs will bring new light to the issue of decoupling
responsibility in indirect reporting, while others are
theoretically oriented and deal with deep problems in philosophy
and epistemology.
This volume offers the reader a singular overview of current
thinking on indirect reports. The contributors are eminent
researchers from the fields of philosophy of language, theoretical
linguistics and communication theory, who answer questions on this
important issue. This exciting area of controversy has until now
mostly been treated from the viewpoint of philosophy. This volume
adds the views from semantics, conversation analysis and
sociolinguistics. Authors address matters such as the issue of
semantic minimalism vs. radical contextualism, the attribution of
responsibility for the modes of presentation associated with Noun
Phrases and how to distinguish the indirect reporter's
responsibility from the original speaker's responsibility. They
also explore the connection between indirect reporting and direct
quoting. Clearly indirect reporting has some bearing on the
semantics/pragmatics debate, however, there is much controversy on
"what is said", whether this is a minimal semantic logical form
(enriched by saturating pronominals) or a much richer and fully
contextualized logical form. This issue will be discussed from
several angles. Many of the authors are contextualists and the
discussion brings out the need to take context into account when
one deals with indirect reports, both the context of the original
utterance and the context of the report. It is interesting to see
how rich cues and clues can radically transform the reported
message, assigning illocutionary force and how they can be
mobilized to distinguish several voices in the utterance.
Decoupling the voice of the reporting speaker from that of the
reported speaker on the basis of rich contextual clues is an
important issue that pragmatic theory has to tackle. Articles on
the issue of slurs will bring new light to the issue of decoupling
responsibility in indirect reporting, while others are
theoretically oriented and deal with deep problems in philosophy
and epistemology.
A group of authors containing both leading authorities and young
researchers addresses a number of issues of contrastiveness,
polarity items and exhaustivity, quantificational expressions and
the implicatures they generate, and the interaction between
semantic operators and speech acts. The 19 contributions provide
insights on the interplay between semantics and pragmatics. The
volume's reach is cross-linguistic and takes an unorthodox
multi-paradigm approach. Languages studied range from European
languages including Hungarian and Russian to East Asian languages
such as Japanese and Korean, with rich data on focus and discourse
particles. This volume contributes to a major area of research in
linguistics of the last decade, and provides novel,
state-of-the-art views on some of the central topics in linguistic
research, and will appeal to an audience of graduate and advanced
undergraduate researchers in linguistics, philosophy of language
and computational linguistics.
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