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Meaning and Humour Andrew Goatly. Experimental Pragmatics Ira Noveck. Table of contents 1. Meaning in the language system: Semantics and conceptual meaning of grammar; 4.

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Semantics and the conceptual meaning of lexis; 5. Personal, social and affective meanings; 6.

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Textual meaning and genre; 7. Metaphor and figures of speech; 8.


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Pragmatics, reference and speech-acts; 9. Relevance theory, schemas and deductive inference; Review quote 'Humour is not always easy to understand, semantics is hard to grasp. Adroitly enunciating, Andrew Goatly mixes and matches, with a careful touch, and both teaches and captivates his readers. Alexander, Vienna University of Economics and Business 'Goatly's work is an interesting, innovative, and useful book.

It is the first systematic consideration of the linguistic phenomena of humor. However, they are also used to give advice, and to grant permission, and are sometimes found in advertisements, good wishes and conditional constructions.

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Yet, the relationship between the form of imperatives, and the wide range of speech acts in which they occur, remains unclear, as do the ways in which semantic theory should handle imperatives. This book is the first to look systematically at both the data and the theory. The first part discusses data from a large set of languages, including many outside the Indo-European family, and analyses in detail the range of uses to which imperatives are put, paying particular attention to controversial cases.

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This provides the empirical background for the second part, where the authors offer an accessible, comprehensive and in-depth discussion of the major theoretical accounts of imperative semantics and pragmatics. The Best Books of Check out the top books of the year on our page Best Books of Looking for beautiful books?

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    Table of contents Part I. What is the imperative mood? Imperative mood and directive force; 3. Imperatives with conditional meanings; Part II. The imperative is directive force; 5. Declarative-like semantics for imperatives; 6. The imperative as a distinct semantic type; An opinionated conclusion; Appendix A.