Sharpening the adequacy of a characterisation.

Schaden, Gerhard; Tovena, Lucia

Type de document :

Compte-rendu et recension critique d'ouvrage

Titre :

Sharpening the adequacy of a characterisation.

Auteur(s) :

Schaden, Gerhard [Auteur]

Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]
Tovena, Lucia [Auteur]
Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 [UPD7]

Titre de la revue :

Sprache und Datenverarbeitung

Pagination :

pp. 122-137.

Date de publication :

2009

Mot(s)-clé(s) :

characterisation
linguistics
focus particles

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique

Résumé en anglais : [en]

In this paper, we propose a characterisation for the German particle gerade (just/ precisely) that tries to capture the intuition of "emphatic assertion of identity" (König 1991 a,b) in terms of an operation of comparison. ...
Lire la suite >In this paper, we propose a characterisation for the German particle gerade (just/ precisely) that tries to capture the intuition of "emphatic assertion of identity" (König 1991 a,b) in terms of an operation of comparison. Stated informally, gerade helps to "sharpen the perception of adequacy" of the description expressed by the associate. The focus-background partition is exploited to identify the elements in the identity relation, and the effect of sharpening cornes about by asserting the superiority of the associate over the alternatives with respect to the issue under discussion.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Vulgarisation :

Non

Collections :

Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163

Source :

Harvested from HAL

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