Questions in Discourse

Volume 2: Pragmatics
Approx. VIII, 206 Pp., Index Auflage
ISBN: 978-90-04-37831-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 36, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface

The volume Questions in Discourse - Vol. 2 Pragmatics collects original research on the role of questions in understanding text structure and discourse pragmatics. The in-depth studies discuss the effects of focus, questions and givenness in unalternative semantics, as well as the role of scalar particles, question-answer pairs and prosody from the perspective of Questions under Discussion. Two contributions compare the discourse-structuring potential of Questions under Discussion and rhetorical relations, whereas another adds a perspective from inquisitive semantics. Some contributions also look at understudied languages. Together, the contributions allow for a better understanding of question-related pragmatic and discourse-semantic phenomena, and they offer new perspectives on the structure of texts and discourses.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Heusinger, Klaus von

Onea Gaspar, V.Edgar

Zimmermann, Malte

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction
Malte Zimmermann, Klaus von Heusinger and Edgar Onea

2 Focus, Questions and Givenness
Daniel Büring

3 The Scalar Particle har’i in Ngamo (West Chadic)
Mira Grubic

4 Question-Answer Pairs in Sign Languages
Annika Herrmann, Sina Proske and Elisabeth Volk

5 Inferring Meaning from Indirect Answers to Polar Questions: the Contribution of the Rise-Fall-Rise Contour
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe and Judith Tonhauser

6 Constructing QUD Trees
Arndt Riester

7 Underneath Rhetorical Relations: the Case of Result
Edgar Onea

8 Two Alternatives for Disjunction: an Inquisitive Reconciliation
Floris Roelofsen

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Malte Zimmermann received his doctoral degree in Linguistics from the Universiteit van Amsterdam (2002) and is Professor for Semantics and Grammar Theory at Universität Potsdam. He works and publishes in theoretical and experimental linguistics with a focus on the interfaces between morphosyntax, semantics and pragmatics. His empirical focus is on Germanic and West African languages (Kwa, Chadic).

Klaus von Heusinger, Dr. phil. (1992) and Habilitation (1999) at University of Konstanz, Germany, is Professor in General and German Linguistics at the University of Cologne. He works and publishes in theoretical and comparative linguistics with a focus on referential categories, such as (in)definiteness, specificity, and partitivity, and on Differential Object Marking in Romance and Altaic languages.

Edgar Onea received his Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg (2005). He has worked at the University of Stuttgart and the University of Göttingen. Currently, he is a professor for German Linguistics at the University of Graz. He has published on various topics in formal and experimental pragmatics, the semantics-pragmatics interface, information structure and discourse structure.