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Format: 1 online resource (566p.)

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Series Statement: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 155

Content: How to Show Things with Words is an interdisciplinary research study at the interface between linguistics and philosophy which sheds new light on the narrative-theoretical issue of proximal vs. distal stance adoption in discourse. Narrative distance ultimately depends on the epistemological source of the information conveyed, but English and other Indo-European languages have no inflectional systems for (en)coding that source of knowledge. To fill in the gap, speech act theory is (re)considered in the light of philosophical research on linguistic functions and a parallel is drawn between grammaticalized evidential categories and the objectifying acts of Husserl's phenomenology of constitution. These intuitive vs. signitive intentional acts do, indeed, roughly correspond to direct vs. indirect evidentiary forms and can be inferred from the temporal-perspectival organization of discourse by the so-called intimation or announcement function of language-systems. It turns out that perspectival immediacy requires tenses with overlapping event- and reference-points, but predictions of the sort are non-monotonic forms of reasoning defeasible by quantificational aspect distinctions, on the one hand, and inherent meaning considerations, on the other. To substantiate this claim, the bulk of the book provides an in-depth formal semantic account of tense, aspect and Aktionsart, interwoven with a detailed analysis of the cognitive processes associated with eventuality-description types. The book adresses an audience of linguists in general, formal semanticists, cognitive scientists, philosophers and narratologists with an interest in natural language semantics.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Introduction -- , Part 1: Prolegomena -- , 1. The linguistic structure of narrative transmission -- , 2. Linguistics in narratology: A critical historical survey -- , 3. The narrating stance as locutionary subjectivity -- , Part 2: The temporal-perspectival organization of discourse -- , 4. Tense -- , 5. Aspect -- , 6. Aktionsart -- , 7. The effects of Aktionsart on narrative transmission. 7.1. Introduction -- , 7. The effects of Aktionsart on narrative transmission. 7.2. -STAT eventuality descriptions -- , 7. The effects of Aktionsart on narrative transmission. 7.3. +STAT eventuality descriptions -- , 7. The effects of Aktionsart on narrative transmission. 7.4. World-knowledge based event semantics -- , 7. The effects of Aktionsart on narrative transmission. 7.5. Concluding remarks -- , Conclusion -- , Appendix 1 -- , Appendix 2 -- , Notes -- , References -- , Index of names -- , Index of subjects , In English.

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Series Statement: Trends in Linguistics / Studies and Monographs 155

Language: English

Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

Keywords: Sprachphilosophie ; Erzähltechnik ; Linguistik

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Author information: Linhares-Dias, Rui, 1955-

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Format: XXII, 544 S. , graph. Darst.

ISBN: 3110179954

Series Statement: Trends in Linguistics / Studies and Monographs 155

Language: English

Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

Keywords: Sprachphilosophie ; Erzähltechnik ; Linguistik

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Author information: Linhares-Dias, Rui 1955-

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Format: XXII, 544 S. , graph. Darst.

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Series Statement: Trends in Linguistics 155

Content: This book straddles the border between linguistics and philosophy to address, on a sound interdisciplinary basis, the narrative-theoretical issue of proximal vs. distal stance adoption. In languages with no grammaticalized evidential systems, the epistemological structure of discourse underlying perspectival oppositions is heavily dependent on the self-expression of language-using personae and must thereby be inferred from a well-defined set of surface markers. For that matter, the book provides an in-depth formal semantic account of tense, aspect and Aktionsart, supported by the cognitive processes inherent in eventuality-description types

Additional Edition: Online-Ausg. Linhares-Dias, Rui, 1955 - How to Show Things with Words Berlin ;New York : M. de Gruyter, 2011 ISBN 9783110899627

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Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

Keywords: Sprachphilosophie

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Author information: Linhares-Dias, Rui 1955-

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Format: 1 online resource (566p.)

ISBN: 9783110899627

Series Statement: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 155

Content: How to Show Things with Words is an interdisciplinary research study at the interface between linguistics and philosophy which sheds new light on the narrative-theoretical issue of proximal vs. distal stance adoption in discourse. Narrative distance ultimately depends on the epistemological source of the information conveyed, but English and other Indo-European languages have no inflectional systems for (en)coding that source of knowledge. To fill in the gap, speech act theory is (re)considered in the light of philosophical research on linguistic functions and a parallel is drawn between grammaticalized evidential categories and the objectifying acts of Husserl's phenomenology of constitution. These intuitive vs. signitive intentional acts do, indeed, roughly correspond to direct vs. indirect evidentiary forms and can be inferred from the temporal-perspectival organization of discourse by the so-called intimation or announcement function of language-systems. It turns out that perspectival immediacy requires tenses with overlapping event- and reference-points, but predictions of the sort are non-monotonic forms of reasoning defeasible by quantificational aspect distinctions, on the one hand, and inherent meaning considerations, on the other. To substantiate this claim, the bulk of the book provides an in-depth formal semantic account of tense, aspect and Aktionsart, interwoven with a detailed analysis of the cognitive processes associated with eventuality-description types. The book adresses an audience of linguists in general, formal semanticists, cognitive scientists, philosophers and narratologists with an interest in natural language semantics.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Introduction -- , Part 1: Prolegomena -- , 1. The linguistic structure of narrative transmission -- , 2. Linguistics in narratology: A critical historical survey -- , 3. The narrating stance as locutionary subjectivity -- , Part 2: The temporal-perspectival organization of discourse -- , 4. Tense -- , 5. Aspect -- , 6. Aktionsart -- , 7. The effects of Aktionsart on narrative transmission. 7.1. Introduction -- , 7. The effects of Aktionsart on narrative transmission. 7.2. -STAT eventuality descriptions -- , 7. The effects of Aktionsart on narrative transmission. 7.3. +STAT eventuality descriptions -- , 7. The effects of Aktionsart on narrative transmission. 7.4. World-knowledge based event semantics -- , 7. The effects of Aktionsart on narrative transmission. 7.5. Concluding remarks -- , Conclusion -- , Appendix 1 -- , Appendix 2 -- , Notes -- , References -- , Index of names -- , Index of subjects , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 978-3-11-017995-8

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9783110899627

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110899627

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Series Statement: Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 155

Content: How to Show Things with Words is an interdisciplinary research study at the interface between linguistics and philosophy which sheds new light on the narrative-theoretical issue of proximal vs. distal stance adoption in discourse. Narrative distance ultimately depends on the epistemological source of the information conveyed, but English and other Indo-European languages have no inflectional systems for (en)coding that source of knowledge. To fill in the gap, speech act theory is (re)considered in the light of philosophical research on linguistic functions and a parallel is drawn between grammaticalized evidential categories and the objectifying acts of Husserl's phenomenology of constitution. These intuitive vs. signitive intentional acts do, indeed, roughly correspond to direct vs. indirect evidentiary forms and can be inferred from the temporal-perspectival organization of discourse by the so-called intimation or announcement function of language-systems. It turns out that perspectival immediacy requires tenses with overlapping event- and reference-points, but predictions of the sort are non-monotonic forms of reasoning defeasible by quantificational aspect distinctions, on the one hand, and inherent meaning considerations, on the other. To substantiate this claim, the bulk of the book provides an in-depth formal semantic account of tense, aspect and Aktionsart, interwoven with a detailed analysis of the cognitive processes associated with eventuality-description types. The book addresses an audience of linguists in general, formal semanticists, cognitive scientists, philosophers and narratologists with an interest in natural language semantics.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Front matter -- , Introduction -- , Part 1: Prolegomena -- , 1. The linguistic structure of narrative transmission -- , 2. Linguistics in narratology: A critical historical survey -- , 3. The narrating stance as locutionary subjectivity -- , Part 2: The temporal-perspectival organization of discourse -- , 4. Tense -- , 5. Aspect -- , 6. Aktionsart -- , 7. The effects of Aktionsart on narrative transmission. 7.1. Introduction -- , 7. The effects of Aktionsart on narrative transmission. 7.2. -STAT eventuality descriptions -- , 7. The effects of Aktionsart on narrative transmission. 7.3. +STAT eventuality descriptions -- , 7. The effects of Aktionsart on narrative transmission. 7.4. World-knowledge based event semantics -- , 7. The effects of Aktionsart on narrative transmission. 7.5. Concluding remarks -- , Conclusion -- , Appendix 1 -- , Appendix 2 -- , Notes -- , References -- , Index of names -- , Index of subjects , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 3-11-017995-4

Language: English

Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

DOI: 10.1515/9783110899627