- Anglický jazyk
Negative Inversion, Social Meaning, and Gricean Implicature
Autor: William Salmon
Drawing on thought from sociolinguistics and Gricean pragmatics, this monograph offers a multi-dimensional account of Negative Inversion sentences across African American, Anglo, and Chicano Englishes in Texas. The book argues that several puzzles of this... Viac o knihe
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Drawing on thought from sociolinguistics and Gricean pragmatics, this monograph offers a multi-dimensional account of Negative Inversion sentences across African American, Anglo, and Chicano Englishes in Texas. The book argues that several puzzles of this construction that have long been assumed to be problems of syntax and semantics are handled more fruitfully via Gricean reasoning, demographics of use, and a simple semantics.
- Vydavateľstvo: De Gruyter Mouton
- Rok vydania: 2020
- Formát: Hardback
- Rozmer: 236 x 160 mm
- Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
- ISBN: 9781501519277