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Word Meaning and Syntax: Approaches to the Interface
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Word Meaning and Syntax: Approaches to the InterfaceThis book examines the nature of the interface between word meaning and syntax, one of the most controversial and elusive issues in contemporary linguistics. It approaches the interface from both sides of the relation, and surveys a range of views on the mapping between them, with an emphasis on lexical approaches to argument structure. Stephen Wechsler begins by analysing the fundamental problem of word meaning, with discussions of vagueness and polysemy, complemented with a look at the roles of world knowledge and normative aspects of word meaning.
 
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Tags: meaning, approaches, between, interface, vagueness
The Theme-Topic Interface: Evidence from English (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series)
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The Theme-Topic Interface: Evidence from English (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series)

The Theme-Topic Interface (TTI) gives a useful catalogue of approaches to the concept Theme in the analysis of Natural Language. The book is written with both theoretical and descriptive goals and aims to synthesize and revise current approaches to pragmatic functions. In addition, TTI explains that different thematic constructions in natural language reveal different discourse strategies related to point of view and speaker subjectivity, which shows the mutually supportive role of form and discourse function vis-á-vis each other.
 
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Tags: Theme-Topic, discourse, approaches, different, Interface
Lexical Pragmatics and Theory of Mind: The acquisition of connectives (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series)
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Lexical Pragmatics and Theory of Mind: The acquisition of connectives (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series)

The concept of theory of mind (ToM), a hot topic in cognitive psychology for the past twenty-five years, has gained increasing importance in the fields of linguistics and pragmatics. However, even though the relationship between ToM and verbal communication is now recognized, the extent, causality and full implications of this connection remain mostly to be explored. This book presents a comprehensive discussion of the interface between language, communication, and theory of mind, and puts forward an innovative proposal regarding the role of discourse connectives for this interface.
 
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Tags: connectives, between, interface, communication, Pragmatics
Linguistic Approaches to Emotions in Context
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Linguistic Approaches to Emotions in ContextThis book presents new issues in the study of the interface of emotions and language, and their use in social context. Two fundamental questions are tackled: the way different languages encode emotional information and the core role emotions play in languages' structure, use and learning. Seldom treated means of expressing emotions (such as interjections, conditionals, scalarity, allocentric constructions), the social and professional impact of emotions and the latest developments in the interface of speech recognition / emotions are some of the key contributions to this volume.
 
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Tags: emotions, languages, social, interface, latest
Compositional Semantics: An Introduction to the Syntax/Semantics Interface
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Compositional Semantics: An Introduction to the Syntax/Semantics InterfaceCompositional Semantics: An Introduction to the Syntax/Semantics Interface

This book provides an introduction to compositional semantics and to the syntax/semantics interface. It is rooted within the tradition of model theoretic semantics, and develops an explicit fragment of both the syntax and semantics of a rich portion of English.
 
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Tags: semantics, syntax, Semantics, English, Compositional, Interface