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Accentuation and Interpretation

Accentuation and Interpretation

Paperback

Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition

Literary CriticismLinguistics

ISBN10: 1349280739
ISBN13: 9781349280735
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 1 2008
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Develops a highly original theory of accentuation in which accentuation serves the mere pragmatic function of making utterances well comprehensible. Semantic effects of accentuation are explained as epiphenomena of pragmatic accentuation. The theory is formally elaborated in a model-theoretic framework and experimentally justified.

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