About this ebook
In addition to expressing some main content, utterances often convey secondary content, which is content that is not their “main point”, but which rather provides side or background information, is less prominent than the main content, and shows distinctive behavior with respect to its role in discourse structure and which discourse moves it licenses. This volume collects original research papers on the semantics and pragmatics of secondary content. By covering a broad variety of linguistic phenomena that convey secondary content – including expressives, various particles, adverbials, pronouns, quotations, and dogwhistle language – the contributions show that secondary content is pervasive throughout different aspects of natural language and provide new insight into the nature of secondary content through new semantic and pragmatic analyses.
In addition to expressing some main content, utterances often convey secondary content, which is content that is not their “main point”, but which rather provides side or background information, is less prominent than the main content, and shows distinctive behavior with respect to its role in di...
About the author
Daniel Gutzmann, Ph.D. (2013), University of Frankfurt, is a senior lecturer in German Linguistics at the University of Cologne, working on semantics, pragmatics. He is author of Use-Conditional Meaning (OUP, 2015) and co-edited two other volumes in the CRISPI series.
Katharina Turgay, Ph.D. (2010), University of Mainz, is a senior lecturer in German Linguistics at the University of Landau. She published two monographs and many articles on various grammatical and semantic topics, especially on non-formal varieties of language.
Contributors are: Ana Aguilar-Guevara, Patrícia Amaral, Claudia Borgonovo, Elena Castroviejo & Berit Gehrke, Laura Dörre & Andreas Trotzke, Mira Grubic, Holden Härtl, Robert Henderson, , Stefan Hinterwimmer, Joachim Jacobs, Elin McCready, Kalle Müller, Osamu Sawada, Heiko Seeliger, and Matthijs Westera.
Katharina Turgay, Ph.D. (2010), University of Mainz, is a senior lecturer in German Linguistics at the University of Landau. She published two monographs and many articles on various grammatical and semantic topics, especially on non-formal varieties of language.
Contributors are: Ana Aguilar-Guevara, Patrícia Amaral, Claudia Borgonovo, Elena Castroviejo & Berit Gehrke, Laura Dörre & Andreas Trotzke, Mira Grubic, Holden Härtl, Robert Henderson, , Stefan Hinterwimmer, Joachim Jacobs, Elin McCready, Kalle Müller, Osamu Sawada, Heiko Seeliger, and Matthijs Westera.
Daniel Gutzmann, Ph.D. (2013), University of Frankfurt, is a senior lecturer in German Linguistics at the University of Cologne, working on semantics, pragmatics. He is author of Use-Conditional Meaning (OUP, 2015) and co-edited two other volumes in the CRISPI series.
Katharina Turgay, Ph.D. (20...
Rate this ebook
Tell us what you think.
Reading information
Smartphones and tablets
Install the Google Play Books app for Android and iPad/iPhone. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.
Laptops and computers
You can listen to audiobooks purchased on Google Play using your computer's web browser.
eReaders and other devices
To read on e-ink devices like Kobo eReaders, you'll need to download a file and transfer it to your device. Follow the detailed Help Center instructions to transfer the files to supported eReaders.
