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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><font
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><font
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at the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface: Synchronic and Diachronic Issues. A Study
with Special Reference to the French Phasa Adverbs. </span></font></b>(Current
Research in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface, vol. 19). <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
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style='font-weight:bold'> </span></b>Hardcover: 251 pp.<b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The central aim of
this study is to elucidate the nature of the semantics / pragmatics distinction
in both synchrony and diachrony. The author proposes a definition of
semantics and pragmatics that is orthogonal to the question of
truth-conditionality, and discusses the status of various types of meaning with
respect to this definition. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>A corollary aim of
the study is to propose an account of how and why erstwhile
pragmatically-determined elements of meaning may, in the course of time, become
semanticized. The nature, paths, and mechanisms of diachronic sense changes
of the relevant type, as well as the motivations for them, are discussed in
some detail. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The author
combines insights from different sources, prominently frame-based semantics,
historical pragmatics, and Peircean semiotics, to arrive at a model of
linguistic meaning that is both synchronically and diachronically dynamic,
hence capable of integrating structure and usage.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>As a case study,
the synchronic uses and diachronic evolution of the exceptionally
polyfunctional French phasal adverbs <i><span style='font-style:italic'>déjà </span></i>(‘already’),<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> encore</span></i> (‘still/yet’),<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> toujours</span></i> (‘still’), and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>enfin</span></i> (‘finally’) are analyzed
in some detail, with particular attention being paid to the semantic <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>vs</span></i> pragmatic nature of the various uses of
these items.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The book will be
of interest to lexical semanticists, pragmaticians, historical linguists,
functional/cognitive linguists, discourse analysts, and semioticians.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>____________________________________________</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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href="http://books.elsevier.com/uk/language/uk/subindex.asp?isbn=1750368X&country=United+Kingdom&community=language&ref=&stype=ISSN&title=Studies+in+Pragmatics&type=SERIES&mscssid=1LCGE0XDCG199GNCQWPST0ARXC4T73P3">Studies
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