Beyond Words: Content, Context, and Inference

by Frank Liedtke

In pragmatics, it is widely accepted that the overall meaning of an utterance performed as part of a verbal interchange is basically underdetermined by the meaning of the sentence uttered. What counts as having been said for most contemporary authors goes far beyond sentence meaning. Rather, it has to be considered as a complex utterance level combining semantic knowledge and context-driven, pragmatic information as an integrated whole.
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1614513864
• ISBN13: 9781614513865
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"