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The pragmatics of lexical specificity

Journal of Linguistics, 1977
Mainstream linguists have now begun to take an interest in the way the formal resources of language are put to use by people in communicative situations. A powerful impulse for this awakening interest came from Grice's paper ‘The logic of conversation’; (1975).
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The role of lexical data in pragmatics

2001
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Lexical semantics and pragmatics of evaluative adverbs

2008
Abstract Evaluative adverbs, such as unfortunately, strangely, and curiously, form a small but interesting class of adverbs. We aim here at proposing a precise account of their lexical semantic and pragmatic properties, using French as our object language.
Bonami, Olivier, Godard, Danièle
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Children's avoidance of lexical overlap: A pragmatic account.

Developmental Psychology, 2001
Children tend to choose an unfamiliar object rather than a familiar one when asked to find the referent of a novel name. This response has been taken as evidence for the operation of certain lexical constraints in children's inferences of word meanings. The present studies test an alternative--pragmatic--explanation of this phenomenon among 3-year-olds.
G, Diesendruck, L, Markson
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Lexical cloning in English: A neo-Gricean lexical pragmatic analysis

Journal of Pragmatics, 2015
Abstract Lexical cloning, formally known as ‘contrastive focus reduplication’, refers to the phenomenon whereby there is a modifier reduplication of a lexical item. The reduplicated modifier, which receives a contrastive focus accent, is used to single out some privileged sense, in contrast to other senses, of an ambiguous, polysemous, vague or loose
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The lexical pragmatics of reflexive marking

Language
Abstract: In French, the members of a subclass of anticausative verbs are optionally marked with the clitic se , traditionally considered to be a reflexive marker. We show that this optionality is not a case of free variation. Rather, the presence or absence of se is influenced by lexical-pragmatic considerations: while by default, both variants are ...
Fabienne Martin, Florian Schäfer, Itamar Kastner   +2 more
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Acquiring Lexical, Sociolinguistic, and Pragmatic Competence

Abstract This chapter explores the acquisition of lexical, sociolinguistic, and pragmatic competence in French as a second language (L2). Key constructs are considered in each area. They include dimensions of lexis, sociolinguistic variation and sociolinguistic variables, speech style, pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic competence, and ...
Henry Tyne, Martin Howard
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Cultivation of Lexical Pragmatic Awareness in the Context of Lexical Pragmatics

International Journal of New Developments in Education, 2022
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Pragmatic contributions to lexical development

Infant Behavior and Development, 1998
Pamela R. Rollins, Virginia A. Marchman
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Lexical pragmatics

Journal of Semantics, 1998
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