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Lexical Pragmatics and the Lexicon
Bulletin for Biblical Research, 2012Abstract While the number of our lexical resources for exegeting and translating both testaments has grown enormously, our understanding of how words mean remains lodged in a model of communication that has come under challenge in recent years.
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Lexical semantics and pragmatics of evaluative adverbs
2008Abstract 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, 2001Children 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, 2015Abstract 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
LanguageAbstract: 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 ...
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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, 2022openaire +1 more source
Pragmatic contributions to lexical development
Infant Behavior and Development, 1998Pamela R. Rollins, Virginia A. Marchman
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Lexical Pragmatics and Unification
Research on Language and Computation, 2007openaire +1 more source