Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics
Japanese and Beyond
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Beschreibung
This volume presents an exploration of a wide variety of new formal methods from computer science, biology and economics that have been applied to problems in semantics and pragmatics in recent years. Many of the contributions included focus on data from East Asian languages, particularly Japanese and Korean. The collection reflects on a range of new empirical issues that have arisen, including issues related to preference, evidentiality, and attention. Separated into several sections, the book presents discussions on: information structure, speech acts and decisions, philosophical themes in semantics, and new formal approaches to semantic and pragmatic theory. Its overarching theme is the relation between different kinds of content, from a variety of perspectives. The discussions presented are both theoretically innovative and empirically motivated.
This volume presents an exploration of a wide variety of new formal methods from computer science, biology and economics that have been applied to problems in semantics and pragmatics in recent years. Many of the contributions included focus on data from East Asian languages, particularly Japanese and Korean. The collection reflects on a range of new empirical issues that have arisen, including issues related to preference, evidentiality and attention. Separated into several sections, the book presents discussions on: information structure, speech acts and decisions, philosophical themes in semantics and new formal approaches to semantic and pragmatic theory. Its overarching theme is the relation between different kinds of content, from a variety of perspectives. The discussions presented are both theoretically innovative and empirically motivated.
Includes a variety of papers by leading researchers working at the cutting edge of formal semantics and pragmatics Contains both foundational and empirical work, all from scholars well-informed both about formal and philosophical work and natural language Will be useful for researchers working on a wide range of problems in formal semantics and pragmatics and at their interface Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Elin McCready
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Cross-linguistic approaches Floating quantifiers in Japanese Information packaging in Japanese Japanese reported speech Japaness discourse particle yo in declaratives Lambda-calculi for formal pragmatics Linguistic monads Meta-Lambda-Calculus Philosophical themes in semantics Projectionof appositives Speech acts and decisions Workings of natural language