30.635, Books: Mood: Portner

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Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 12:14:19
From: Alyssa Russell [Alyssa.Russell at oup.com]
Subject: Mood: Portner

 


Title: Mood 
Series Title: Oxford Surveys in Semantics and Pragmatics  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/mood-9780199547524 


Author: Paul Portner

Hardback: ISBN:  9780199547524 Pages: 320 Price: U.S. $ 100.00


Abstract:

Editor’s Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced book.

This book presents the essential background for understanding semantic
theories of mood. Mood as a category is widely used in the description of
languages and the formal analysis of their grammatical properties. It
typically refers to the features of a sentence-individual morphemes or
grammatical patterns-that reflect how the sentence contributes to the modal
meaning of a larger phrase, or that indicate the type of fundamental pragmatic
function that it has in conversation. In this volume, Paul Portner discusses
the most significant semantic theories relating to the two main subtypes of
mood: verbal mood, including the categories of indicative and subjunctive
subordinate clauses, and sentence mood, encompassing declaratives,
interrogatives, and imperatives. He evaluates those theories, compares them,
and draws connections between seemingly disparate approaches, and he
formalizes some of the literature's most important ideas in new ways in order
to draw out their most significant insights. Ultimately, this work shows that
there are crucial connections between verbal mood and sentence mood which
point the way towards a more general understanding of how mood works and its
relation to other topics in linguistics; it also outlines the type of semantic
and pragmatic theory which will make it possible to explain these relations.
The book will be a valuable resource for researchers and students from
advanced undergraduate level upwards in the fields of semantics and
pragmatics, philosophy, computer science, and psychology.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=132493




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