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Optimal Interpretation as an Alternative to Gricean Pragmatics
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In: Structuring information in discourse: the explicit/implicit dimension. Oslo Studies in Language 1 (2009), 191-216
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History and grammaticalisation of "doch"/"toch" ...
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The paper investigates the origins of the German/Dutch particle toch/doch) in the hope of shedding light on a puzzle with respect to doch/toch and to shed some light on two theoretical issues. The puzzle is the nearly opposite meaning of the stressed and unstressed versions of the particle which cannot be accounted for in standard theories of the meaning of stress. One theoretical issue concerns the meaning of stress: whether it is possible to reduce the semantic contribution of a stressed item to the meaning of the item and the meaning of stress. The second issue is whether the complex use of a particle like doch/toch can be seen as an instance of spread or whether it has to be seen as having a core meaning which is differentiated by pragmatics operating in different contexts. We use the etymology of doch and doch as to+u+h (that+ question marker+ emphatic marker) to argue for an origin as a question tag checking a hearer opinion. Stress on the tag indicates an opposite opinion (of the common ground or the ... : ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 51 (2009): Papers on pragmasemantics ...
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.51.2009.377
https://zaspil.leibniz-zas.de/article/view/377
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