David I. Beaver, Brady Z. Clark

Sense and Sensitivity (eBook, PDF)

How Focus Determines Meaning

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Produktbeschreibung

Sense and Sensitivity advances a novel research proposal in the nascent field of formal pragmatics, exploring in detail the semantics and pragmatics of focus in natural language discourse. The authors develop a new account of focus sensitivity, and show that what has hitherto been regarded as a uniform phenomenon in fact results from three different mechanisms. The book * Makes a major contribution to ongoing research in the area of focus sensitivity - a field exploring interactions between sound and meaning, specifically the dependency some words have on the effects of focus, such as "she only LIKES me" (i.e. nothing deeper) compared to "she only likes ME" (i.e. nobody else) * Discusses the features of the QFC theory (Quasi association, Free association, and Conventional association), a new account of focus implying a tripartite typology of focus-sensitive expressions * Presents novel cross-linguistic data on focus and focus sensitivity that will be relevant across a range of linguistic sub-fields: semantics and pragmatics, syntax, and intonational phonology * Concludes with a case study of exclusives (like "only"), arguing that the entire existing literature has missed crucial generalizations, and for the first time explaining the focus sensitivity of these expressions in terms of their meaning and discourse function

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444301335
• Artikelnr.: 37346180

Autorenporträt

David I. Beaver is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Presupposition and Assertion in Dynamic Semantics (2001); is co-editor of several books, including The Construction of Meaning (2002); has authored numerous articles for prestigious journals including Linguistics and Philosophy, and Language; is on the editorial team or board of all the three leading journals in semantics; and is co-founder of a new open access journal, Semantics and Pragmatics, supported by the Linguistic Society of America. Brady Z. Clark is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Northwestern University and a faculty member at the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems. He is co-editor (with Beaver, Casillas-Martínez, and Kaufmann) of The Construction of Meaning (2002). He has published in journals including Natural Language Semantics and Language, on topics ranging from semantics to historical syntax and tutorial dialogue systems.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors vii
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction 1
Deborah Poole
Part I: Locations 9
1 Argentina: Contagious Marginalities 11
Claudia Briones and Rosana Guber
2 Bolivia: Bridges and Chasms 32
Rossana Barragán
3 Brazil: Otherness in Context 56
Mariza Peirano
4 Colombia: Citizens and Anthropologists 72
Myriam Jimeno
5 Ecuador: Militants, Priests, Technocrats, and Scholars 90
Carmen Martínez Novo
6 Guatemala: Essentialisms and Cultural Politics 109
Brigittine M. French
7 Mexico: Anthropology and the Nation-State 128
Salomón Nahmad Sittón
8 Peru: From Otherness to a Shared Diversity 150
Carlos Iván Degregori and Pablo Sandoval
Part II: Debates 175
9 Race in Latin America 177
Peter Wade
10 Language States 193
Penelope Harvey
11 Legalities and Illegalities 214
Mark Goodale
12 Borders, Sovereignty, and Racialization 230
Ana M. Alonso
13 Writing the Aftermath: Anthropology and "Post-Conflict" 254
Isaias Rojas Pérez
14 Alterities: Kinship and Gender 276
Olivia Harris
15 Vinculaciones: Pharmaceutical Politics and Science 303
Cori Hayden
16 Agrarian Reform and Peasant Studies: The Peruvian Case 325
Linda J. Seligmann
17 Statistics and Anthropology: The Mexican Case 352
Casey Walsh
Part III: Positions 373
18 Indigenous Anthropologies beyond Barbados 375
Stefano Varese, Guillermo Delgado, and Rodolfo L. Meyer
19 Afro-Latin American Peoples 399
Jaime Arocha and Adriana Maya
20 Reconceptualizing Latin America 426
Lynn Stephen
21 Places and Academic Disputes: The Argentine Gran Chaco 447
Gastón Gordillo
22 Disengaging Anthropology 466
Alcida Rita Ramos
23 On the Frontlines: Forensic Anthropology 485
Victoria Sanford
24 Collaborative Anthropologies in Transition 502
Charles R. Hale
Index 519

Rezensionen

"An indispensable reference for all social scientists interested in Latin American regions. Summing Up: Essential." (Choice Reviews, May 2009)