Book contents
- Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation
- Relevance, Pragmatics and InterpretationEssays in Honour of Deirdre Wilson
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Cover Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Reflections on the Development of Relevance Theory
- Part I Relevance Theory and Cognitive Communicative Issues
- Part II Pragmatics and Linguistic Issues
- 8 Mood and the Analysis of Imperative Sentences
- 9 The Korean Sentence-Final Suffix ci as a Metarepresentational Marker
- 10 Expressive Epithets and Expressive Small Clauses
- 11 Ad Hoc Concepts, Polysemy and the Lexicon
- 12 The Polysemy of a Norwegian Modal Adverb
- 13 Noun-Noun Compounds from the Perspective of Relevance Theory
- 14 Procedural Syntax
- Part III Figurative Language and Layered Interpretations
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
14 - Procedural Syntax
from Part II - Pragmatics and Linguistic Issues
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 July 2019
Book contents
- Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation
- Relevance, Pragmatics and InterpretationEssays in Honour of Deirdre Wilson
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Cover Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Reflections on the Development of Relevance Theory
- Part I Relevance Theory and Cognitive Communicative Issues
- Part II Pragmatics and Linguistic Issues
- 8 Mood and the Analysis of Imperative Sentences
- 9 The Korean Sentence-Final Suffix ci as a Metarepresentational Marker
- 10 Expressive Epithets and Expressive Small Clauses
- 11 Ad Hoc Concepts, Polysemy and the Lexicon
- 12 The Polysemy of a Norwegian Modal Adverb
- 13 Noun-Noun Compounds from the Perspective of Relevance Theory
- 14 Procedural Syntax
- Part III Figurative Language and Layered Interpretations
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Summary
Eleni Gregoromichelaki and Ruth Kempson present a range of arguments and data, including cases of split utterances, in support of their position that even syntax should be construed in terms of the linguistic underspecification of utterance content and incremental context-relative processing. This approach to language (which they call ‘Dynamic Syntax’) is fundamentally different from orthodox generative grammar and conceptualises syntax as procedures for interaction.
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- Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation , pp. 187 - 202Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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