28.3319, Books: Graded Modality: Lassiter

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Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 11:34:11
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: Graded Modality: Lassiter

 


Title: Graded Modality 
Subtitle: Qualitative and Quantitative Perspectives 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/graded-modality-9780198701354? 


Author: Daniel Lassiter

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198701347 Pages: 320 Price: U.S. $ 105.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780198701354 Pages: 320 Price: U.S. $ 45.00


Abstract:

This book explores graded expressions of modality, a rich and underexplored
source of insight into modal semantics. Studies on modal language to date have
largely focussed on a small and non-representative subset of expressions,
namely modal auxiliaries such as must, might, and ought. Here, Daniel Lassiter
argues that we should expand the conversation to include gradable modals such
as more likely than, quite possible, and very good. He provides an
introduction to qualitative and degree semantics for graded meaning, using the
Representational Theory of Measurement to expose the complementarity between
these apparently opposed perspectives on gradation. The volume explores and
expands the typology of scales among English adjectives and uses the result to
shed light on the meanings of a variety of epistemic and deontic modals. It
also demonstrates that modality is deeply intertwined with probability and
expected value, connecting modal semantics with the cognitive science of
uncertainty and choice.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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