The meaning of modals: a view from pragmatics.

Depraetere, Ilse

Type de document :

Autre communication scientifique (congrès sans actes - poster - séminaire...): Communication dans un congrès avec actes

Titre :

The meaning of modals: a view from pragmatics.

Auteur(s) :

Depraetere, Ilse [Auteur]

Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]

Titre de la manifestation scientifique :

Fifth International Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE)

Ville :

London

Pays :

Royaume-Uni

Date de début de la manifestation scientifique :

2018-07-17

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique

Résumé en anglais : [en]

In this talk, I will address questions in the semantics/pragmatics interface taking modals as a test case. Given the range of meanings that can be expressed by possibility modals as well as necessity modals, and the ...
Lire la suite >In this talk, I will address questions in the semantics/pragmatics interface taking modals as a test case. Given the range of meanings that can be expressed by possibility modals as well as necessity modals, and the continuing debate whether modals are polysemous or, rather, whether their meanings should be considered as indeterminate, this area of English grammar constitutes a very fertile ground to assess approaches to ‘meaning in context’. I will illustrate and discuss various ways in which the meaning of modals can be said to be ‘contextual’, and what this means for specific views on pragmatics. I will address the concepts of saturation, free pragmatic enrichment and will also bring into the discussion the notion of construction: I will reflect on their usefulness to get a firmer grip on the meaning of modals as well as on how modal meaning can shed light on and help delineate specific pragmatic concepts.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Comité de lecture :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Vulgarisation :

Non

Projet ANR :

Vers une nouvelle conception des constructions modales en anglais : des paradigmes basés sur des traits distinctifs à la représentation probabliliste basée sur l'usage.

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