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Empirical Perspectives on the Use of Hungarian Nominal Demonstratives

Empirical Perspectives on the Use of Hungarian Nominal Demonstratives

Tóth, Enikő
Tóth

Hardcover

Series: Pragmatic Interfaces

General ReferenceLinguistics

ISBN10: 1487566379
ISBN13: 9781487566371
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Jan 15 2025
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.13
Language: English
Deixis and the use of demonstratives are widely studied topics across languages. The fundamental purpose of this book is to provide an account of the semantics and pragmatics of Hungarian nominal demonstratives by examining why a speaker opts for a given demonstrative form in a particular speech situation and by investigating how the meaning of a demonstrative interacts with contextual clues during the process of reference resolution. These questions are addressed from an empirical perspective; the study incorporates the results of experimental work and corpus-based analyses. The present volume emphasizes the need to rely on various types of data source obtained by the application of diverse methods (including elicitation, corpus-linguistic and experimental methods) to develop a comprehensive account of demonstrative use. The empirical findings reported contribute to our understanding of demonstrative practice as an interactional process between the speaker and the addressee; it is argued that demonstrative reference in Hungarian is a dynamic, highly context-dependent, interactive and addressee-oriented process.

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