Form and Meaning in Language, Volume II: Papers on Discourse and Pragmatics

by Charles J. Fillmore and Verschueren Editor
edited by Pedro Gras, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

CSLI, 2020
eISBN: 978-1-68400-055-5 | Paper: 978-1-68400-054-8

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK
This volume continues the collection of work by Charles J. Fillmore, which he started in 2003. Taken together, the work gathered in these volumes reflects Fillmore’s desire to make sense of the workings of language in a way that keeps in mind questions of language form, language use, and the conventions linking form, meaning, and practice.

Divided into four parts, the papers collected in Volume II explore language in use; semantics and pragmatics; text and discourse; and language in society.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Charles J. Filmore (1929–2014) was professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Lectures on Deixis, also published by CSLI Publications. Pedro Gras is associate professor of Spanish linguistics at the University of Antwerp. Jan-Ola Östman is professor emeritus of Scandinavian languages at the University of Helsinki. Jef Verschueren is professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of Antwerp.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part 1: Language in Use
“On Fluency.”
“Ideal Readers and Real Readers.”“Remarks on Contrastive Pragmatics.”
Part 2: Semantics and Pragmatics
1970 -- “Subjects, Speakers and Roles.”
“Entailment Rules in a Semantic Theory”.
“Pragmatically Controlled Zero Anaphora.”
Part 3: Semantics, Pragmatics and the Lexicon
“Verbs of Judging: An Exercise in Semantic Description.”
“On the Organization of Semantic Information in the Lexicon.”
“Lexical Semantics and Text Semantics.”
Part 4: Text and Discourse
“Pragmatics and the Description of Discourse.”
“Story Grammars and Sentence Grammars: Some Considerations.”
"Linguistics as a Tool for Discourse Analysis.”
Part 5: Language in Society
“A Grammarian Looks to Sociolinguistics.”
“Humor in Academic Discourse.”
“Using Common Sense: A Linguistic Perspective on Judicial Interpretations
of ‘Use a Firearm’.”

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