The semantics of evaluativity /

This volume focuses on the semantic phenomenon of evaluativity in sentences such as John is tall and its consequences across constructions. It proposes an account based on assumptions that speakers and hearers make about the relationship between the simplicity of a situation and the simplicity of th...

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Main Author:	Rett, Jessica (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Series:	Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 54.
Subjects:	Connotation (Linguistics) Pragmatics. Connotation (Linguistique) Pragmatique. pragmatics. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General. Pragmatics Languages & Literatures. Philology & Linguistics. Electronic books.
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