From Cognitive Semantics to Lexical Pragmatics: The Functional Polysemy of Discourse Particles

✍ Scribed by Kerstin Fischer

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 384
• Edition: Reprint 2013
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The domain
   1.1. Aims
   1.2. Definition
   1.2.1. Semantic properties
   1.2.2. Functional properties
   1.2.3. Form-related properties
   1.3. Corpora
   1.3.1. The German corpora
   1.3.2. The English corpora
   1.4. Methods
   1.4.1. Interpretative methods
   1.4.2. Quantitative and computational methods
   1.4.3. Linguistic models
   1.5. The structure of the following
2. Contexts and categories: Functional interpretation
   2.1. The functional spectrum of German ja
   2.2. Category assignment
   2.2.1. The descriptive inventory
   2.2.2. Classification in artificial neural networks
   2.3. Consequences for lexical representation: Constructions
3. Conceptual background frame: Evidence from extra-linguistic variables
   3.1. The variable communication partner
   3.2. The variable speaker’s gender
   3.2.1. Äh and ähm in human-to-human communication
   3.2.2. Gender-related functional shifts in human-computer interaction
   3.3. Consequences for lexical representation: Conceptual background frame
   3.3.1. The relation lexeme – function
   3.3.2. A frame of communicative domains
4. Lexical analysis
   4.1. Semantic relations
   4.1.1. Translation equivalents
   4.1.2. Semantic fields
   4.2. Semantic decomposition
   4.2.1. Methodological considerations
   4.2.2. Semantic tests for discourse particles
   4.2.3. English oh
   4.2.4. Tests for the features of oh
   4.2.5. Further English discourse particles
   4.3. Consequences for lexical representation: Invariant meanings
5. Lexical representation
   5.1. A unified model of the meanings and functions of discourse particles
   5.1.1. The contextual meanings of discourse particles
   5.1.2. From contextual meanings to discourse functions
   5.1.3. The different word classes
   5.1.4. The general function of discourse particles
   5.2. Aspects of the lexicon
   5.2.1. General properties of linguistic lexica
   5.2.2. The structure of lexical entries
   5.2.3. Types of lexical information
   5.2.4. Linguistic generalisations in ILEX/DATR
   5.3. A frame- and construction-based lexicon for discourse particles
6. Conclusion and prospects
   6.1. From cognitive semantics to lexical pragmatics
   6.2. Automatic processing of discourse particles
   References
   Appendix A: Questionnaire
   Appendix B: DATR Program
   Index