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T1 Discourse and pragmatics. A cognitive perspective
A1 Otal Campo, José Luis
A2 Otros
K1 Lenguas
AB This paper is concerned with the connections between semantics,pragmatics, and discourse. The underlying assumption for this enterpriseis the belief that an explanatorily adequate account of discourseprocesses cannot be independent of semantics and pragmatics. The paperadopts a maximalist view of semantics in which the meaning ofsentences is seen as a result of complex patterns of interaction betweendifferent cognitive models (Lakoff, 1987). These include propositionalmodels, metaphor, metonymy, and image-schemas. The maximalistapproach to semantics is combined with a broad view of inferentialpragmatics according to which meaning derivation is regulatedby the presumption of optimal relevance, i.e. the speaker's presumeddesire to achieve the maximum number of meaning effects for theleast processing effort (Sperber and Wilson 1995). Cognitive modeltheory attempts to capture all the richness of semantic characterisations.This endows the theory with a huge potential to account for inferentialactivity and the ability of people to create conceptually connectedtexts. Inferential pragmatics contains all the criteria necessaryto explain how semantic descriptions are used strategically to createtext. Text is the result of adequate balancing explicit and implicit informationon the basis of relevance. This is done through what wemay call cued inferencing, i.e. making inferences on the basis ofprompts provided by linguistic expressions (usually underspecifiedsemantic representations) in connection to a context.
PB León: Universidad de León, Área de Publicaciones, 2010
SN 9788497735292
YR 2015
FD 2015-11-27
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10612/4875
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10612/4875
NO Lengua, traducción, recepción: en honor de Julio César Santoyo=Languaje, translation, reception: to honor Julio César Santoyo/editoras, Rosa Rabadán, Trinidad Guzmán y Marisa Fernández
NO P. 477-495
DS BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León
RD 26-abr-2024