{"product_id":"pragmatic-aspects-of-scalar-modifiers-the-semantics-pragmatics-interface-9780198714224","title":"Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers: The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Osamu Sawada\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - Semantics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume examines the meaning of scalar modifiers - expressions such as\u003cem\u003e more than\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ea bit\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003emuch\u003c\/em\u003e - from the standpoint of the interface between semantics and pragmatics. In natural language, scalar expressions such as comparatives, intensifiers, and minimizers are used for measuring an object or event at a semantic level. However, cross-linguistically scalar modifiers can often be used to express a range of subjective feelings or discourse pragmatic information at the level of conventional implicature (CI). For example, in English \u003cem\u003emore than anything\u003c\/em\u003e can signal the degree of importance of the given utterance, and in Japanese the minimizer \u003cem\u003echotto\u003c\/em\u003e 'a bit' can weaken the degree of imposition of the speech act. In this book, Osamu Sawada draws on data from Japanese and a range of other languages to explore the dual-use phenomenon of scalar modifiers: he claims that although semantic scalar meanings and CI scalar meanings are logically different, the relationship between the two makes it crucial to examine them both together. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe volume provides a new perspective on the semantic-pragmatics interface, and will be of interest to researchers and students of Japanese linguistics, semantics and pragmatics, and theoretical linguistics more generally.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46488728797335,"sku":"9780198714224","price":15167.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780198714224.jpg?v=1766339191","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/pragmatic-aspects-of-scalar-modifiers-the-semantics-pragmatics-interface-9780198714224","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}