37.1291, Books: Expressive Meaning and Speech Acts: Villalba and Espinal (eds.) (2026)

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Subject: 37.1291, Books: Expressive Meaning and Speech Acts: Villalba and Espinal (eds.) (2026)

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Date: 31-Mar-2026
From: Rosanna Woensdregt [rosanna.woensdregt at degruyterbrill.com]
Subject: Expressive Meaning and Speech Acts: Villalba and Espinal (eds.) (2026)


Title: Expressive Meaning and Speech Acts
Series Title: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: De Gruyter Brill
           https://www.degruyterbrill.com/?changeLang=en
Book URL: https://brill.com/display/title/73125

Editor(s): Xavier Villalba and M.Teresa Espinal

ISBN hardback: 978-90-04-74341-0
ISBN e-book: 978-90-04-74991-7
DOI: 10.1163/9789004749917

Abstract:

In addition to introducing a denotational meaning, utterances often
convey an expressive meaning, that provides information about the
speaker or the judger. This volume collects original research papers
on the semantics and pragmatics of expressive meaning in interaction
with speech acts, and on the way that these two domains are encoded in
syntax. By covering a broad variety of well-known and new expressive
phenomena –including non-lexical datives, tense, modality, expletive
negation, minimizers, conditionals, or mood– the contributions uncover
the pervasive presence of expressive meaning across speech acts, while
providing new insight into the old and new issues at the
semantics-pragmatics interface.
Readership: The book will appeal to linguists working in semantics and
pragmatics, scholars interested in the varieties of meaning found in
natural languages, cognitive scientists exploring how meaning is
constructed, and philosophers of language concerned with speech‑act
theory.

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics

Subject Language(s): Catalan (cat)
                     German (deu)
                     Modern Greek (1453-) (ell)
                     Spanish (spa)

Written In: English (eng)



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