Meaning in Context and Contextual Meaning: A Perspective on the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface Applied to Modal Verbs
This paper argues for an approach to pragmatic meaning that hinges on the distinction between truth-conditional meaning and non-truth conditional meaning. While acknowledging that pragmatic processes (like saturation and ‘free pragmatic enrichment’) contribute as much to the recovery of the explicat...
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Main Author: | Ilse Depraetere |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2019-12-01
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Series: | Anglophonia |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/2453 |
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