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  title info:
    title: Context, Cognition and Conditionals
  name:
    name part: Elder, Chi-Hé.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 279 p. 7 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book proposes a semantic theory of conditionals that can account for (i) the variability in usages that conditional sentences can be put; and (ii) both conditional sentences of the form 'if p, q' and those conditional thoughts that are expressed without using 'if'. It presents theoretical arguments as well as empirical evidence from English and other languages in support of the thesis that an adequate study of conditionals has to go beyond an analysis of specific sentence forms or lexical items. The resulting perspective on conditionals is one in which conditionality is located at a higher level than that of the sentence; namely, at the level of thought. The author argues that it is only through adopting such a perspective, and with it, a commitment to context-dependent semantics, that we can successfully represent conditional utterances as they are used and understood by ordinary language users. It will be of interest to students and scholars working on the semantics of conditionals in the fields of linguistics (especially semantics and pragmatics) and philosophy of language. Chi-Hé Elder is Lecturer in Linguistics in the School of Politics, Philosophy and Language and Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her research interests lie in the relationship between post-Gricean pragmatics and interactional pragmatics, with a particular focus on the semantics and pragmatics of conditionals.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Conditional sentences, conditional thoughts -- Chapter 3: Biscuit conditionals, conditional speech acts and speech-act conditionals -- Chapter 4: Beyond the conditional sentence and towards cognitive reality -- Chapter 5: In search of linguistic and contextual constraints on primary meanings -- Chapter 6: Routes to enrichment -- Chapter 7: Towards a pragmatic category of conditionals -- 8. The need for a contextualist outlook on the study of conditionals.
  note: by Chi-Hé Elder.
  subject:
    topic: Cognitive grammar
  subject:
    topic: Pragmatics
  subject:
    topic: Semantics
  subject:
    topic: Language and languages-Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Psycholinguistics
  subject:
    topic: Cognitive Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Pragmatics
  subject:
    topic: Semantics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Language
  subject:
    topic: Psycholinguistics
  classification: P165
  classification: 410.1835
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
  identifier: 9783030137991
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13799-1
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    record creation date: 190624
    record change date: 20191027142153.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-13799-1