Search results for "Literal Meaning"

Comprehension of Generalized Conversational Implicatures by Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder

2018

This study evaluates the comprehension of generalized conversational implicatures (GCI) in children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD), using a GCI test constructed based on the Levinson model, which distinguishes between three types of implicatures: type Q (or scalar: “what is not referred to does not occur”); type I (“by default, it is not necessary to say what can be assumed”); and type M (“if someone is expressing something in a not very simple or marked way, it is because s/he is describing a situation that is not very typical, frequent, or prototypical”). In addition to the ASD group (n = 22), two comparison groups were utilized: a group matched on chronological age with …

Darbības vārdu savienojumi ar postpozīcijām veidi rakstos par jaunuzņēmumiem

2019

Ziņu portāli ir vieni no izplatītākajiem informācijas avotiem, kuri informē par jaunākajām aktualitātēm pasaulē. Attiecīgi, ir ļoti svarīgi apzināt valodas lietojumu un tās atspoguļojumu ziņu rakstos. Tādēļ šī pētījuma mērķis ir pētīt valodas lietojumu rakstos par jaunuzņēmumiem, precīzāk, darbības vārdus ar postpozīcijām un to semantiskās un sintaktiskās īpašības. Lai sasniegtu mērķi, pētījums balstās uz 30 ziņu rakstiem par jaunuzņēmumiem, pēta 220 darbības vārdus ar pospozīcijām un to pielietojumu. Teorētiskā literatūra atklāja ka darbības vārdi ar postpozīcijām ir komplicēti to pārnesto nozīmju un gramatisko īpašību dēļ. Pētījuma rezultāti atspoguļo visbiežāk izmantotos darbības vārdus …

The language game of lost meaning: Using literal meaning as a metalinguistic resource

2019

AbstractBy literal meaning (LM) we usually refer to a theoretical notion which is at the center of a big debate involving philosophers and linguists with various orientations. At the same time, LM is rooted in a linguistic intuition of the speaker, which we could formulate as follows: words taken in isolation have a meaning. Adopting this general take on LM, we are using a notion of LM that seems incompatible with any research program of a contextualist type; I will show, instead, that in a radically contextualist (and Wittgensteinian) perspective, this notion of LM can have legitimate circulation in particular types of language games. I will propose a recovery of the notion of LM saving th…

Il gioco linguistico del significato letterale

2018

Literal Meaning is a widely used notion, which seems to be well rooted in the strong intuition that words have a meaning in themselves. However, as pointed out in previous literature (e.g. RECANATI 2004), this theoretical notion seems to be problematic in accounting for some aspects of the nature of linguistic meaning. Embracing these criticisms, we will show how the heuristic power of this notion becomes apparent when looking at some specific types of contexts, namely those language games where it is necessary to retrieve the meaning of words in isolation. This will allow us to argue in favour of consistency of this notion with theoretical framework with a strong focus on the contextual na…

Two ways to metaphor comprehension in comparison: towards a bidimensional account of metaphor comprehension - poster

In this paper we will discuss the role of literal meaning and mental imagery in metaphor comprehension, showing their link and the problematic nature of these notions in pragmatics (Wilson & Carston 2019). We will try to overcome these problems by putting in dialogue the typology of metaphors offered by Carston (2010, 2018), based on the parameter of literal meaning, and the typology offered by Green (2017) based on the parameter of mental imagery. Carston (2018) recognizes the existence of two kinds of metaphors: (1) local metaphors such as “Giulio is a professor” in which a single lexical item - PROFESSOR - is modulated pragmatically; (2) metaphors such as “The yellow fog that rubs it…