Context, Cognition and Conditionals

• Main Author: Elder, Chi-Hé (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• Subjects: Cognitive grammar.; Pragmatics.; Semantics.; Language and languages-Philosophy.; Psycholinguistics.; Cognitive Linguistics.; Philosophy of Language.

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 presen...

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.