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Accentuation and Interpretation

Accentuation and Interpretation

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition

Literary CriticismLinguistics

ISBN10: 0230002536
ISBN13: 9780230002531
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 23 2008
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.75 Depth: 8.75
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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