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Handbook of pragmatics online Universiteit Antwerpen
Bibliography of pragmatics online Universiteit Antwerpen
Shades of grey: granularity, pragmatics, and non-causal explanation Universiteit Antwerpen
Implicit contextual factors mean that the boundary between causal and non-causal explanation is not as neat as one might hope: as the phenomenon to be explained is given descriptions with varying degrees of granularity, the nature of the favored explanation alternates between causal and non-causal. While it is not surprising that different descriptions of the same phenomenon should favor different explanations, it is puzzling why re-describing ...
Meaning in a changing paradigm: the semantics of you and the pragmatics of thou KU Leuven
Many European languages have two pronouns for singular address. For such languages, Brown and Gilman (1960) propose a model that can explain pronominal choice, arguing that the pronouns allow speakers to construe the speaker-hearer relation with respect to two major social dimensions–power and solidarity. Pronominal choice then functions as a major resource for realizing social deixis in dialogic interaction. However, discussions of the Modern ...
Understanding pragmatics KU Leuven
The pragmatics of person reference A comparative study of Catalan and Spanish parliamentary discourse KU Leuven
© 2017 John Benjamins Publishing Company. In this article, we show through a contrastive analysis of person reference in Catalan and Spanish parliamentary discourse, that it is paramount to take into account not only syntactic but also pragmatic factors in order to adequately analyse the differences between two languages that have rather similar morphological paradigms. Thus, we will show that singular deictics are used more widely in Spanish ...