Emar Maier
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1241901 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Emar Maier |
| NOMBRES | Emar |
| APELLIDO | Maier |
| FIRMA | MAIER E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3179-2923 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Visual Components to Interpretation—Formal Approaches to Visible Meaning
Visual components of communication interact with the core linguistic system at all levels and make an important contribution to the meaning of the utterance expressed. This does not only apply to sign languages, which exclusively rely on the visual channel, but also co‐speech gestures and emojis, which are visual means that accompany and enhance spoken and written languages respectively. Visual meaning components often have iconic properties and …
Reporting, telling, and showing dreams
Dreams are not real, so when we recount them we prefix an intensional operator like ‘I dreamed that ...’. Linguists will analyze this construction in terms of clausal complementation syntax and possible worlds semantics. But talking about a dream is often more like telling a story, with a potentially complex discourse structure (involving propositional discourse units connected by coherence relations like Narration , Background , and Explanation …
Emojis as Pictures
I argue that emojis are essentially little pictures, rather than words, gestures, expressives, or diagrams. 🎁 means that the world looks like that, from some viewpoint. I flesh out a pictorial semantics in terms of geometric projection with abstraction and stylization. Since such a semantics delivers only very minimal contents I add an account of pragmatic enrichment, driven by coherence and non-literal interpretation. The apparent semantic dist…
Minds
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Coping With Imaginative Resistance
We propose to characterize imaginative resistance as the failure or unwillingness of the reader to take a fictional description of a deviant reality at face value. The goal of the paper is to explore how readers deal with such a breakdown of the default Face Value interpretation strategy. We posit two distinct interpretative ‘coping’ strategies which help the reader engage with the resistance-inducing fiction by attributing the offending content …
The landscape of speech reporting
Languages offer various ways to report what someone said. There is now a vast but heterogeneous literature on speech report constructions scattered throughout the semantics literature. We offer a bird’s eye view of the entire landscape of reporting and propose a classification along two dimensions: at-issue vs. not-at-issue, and eventive vs. non-eventive. This bird’s eye perspective leads to genuinely new insights, for instance on the nature of q…
The discourse structure of free indirect discourse reports
We investigate the discourse structure of Free Indirect Discourse passages in narratives. We argue that Free Indirect Discourse reports consist of two separate propositional discourse units: an (explicit or implicit) frame segment and a reported content. These segments are connected at the level of discourse structure by a non-veridical, subordinating discourse relation of Attribution, familiar from recent SDRT analyses of indirect discourse cons…
Taking the perspective of narrative characters
An ongoing debate in the interpretation of referring expressions concerns the degree to which listeners make use of perspective information during referential processing. We aim to contribute to this debate by considering perspective shifting in narrative discourse. In a web-based mouse-tracking experiment in Dutch, we investigated whether listeners automatically shift to a narrative character’s perspective when resolving ambiguous referring expr…
Perspective Shift Across Modalities
Languages offer various ways to present what someone said, thought, imagined, felt, and so on from their perspective. The prototypical example of a perspective-shifting device is direct quotation. In this review we define perspective shift in terms of indexical shift: A direct quotation like “Selena said, ‘Oh, I don't know.’” involves perspective shift because the first-person indexical ‘I’ refers to Selena, not to the actual speaker. We then dis…
The advantage of story-telling
Children struggle with the interpretation of pronouns in direct speech ( Ann said, “I get a cookie” ), but not in indirect speech ( Ann said that she gets a cookie ) (Köder & Maier, 2016). Yet children's books consistently favor direct over indirect speech (Baker & Freebody, 1989). To reconcile these seemingly contradictory findings, we hypothesize that the poor performance found by Köder and Maier (2016) is due to the information-transmission se…
Quotation, demonstration, and attraction in sign language role shift
Schlenker: Role shift as visible context shiftSign language researchers have devoted a lot of attention to role shift, a way of reporting what someone said, signed, thought or did.Typically, role shift is characterized as a kind of direct quotation, involving a shift of the body or eye gaze away from the current addressee, and allowing the signer to sign "from the perspective of the reported speaker."i.e. depicting the reported (utterance) event …
Fictional Names in Psychologistic Semantics
Fictional names pose a difficult puzzle for semantics. How can we maintain that Frodo is a hobbit, while admitting that Frodo does not exist? To dissolve this paradox, I propose a way to formalize the interpretation of fiction as ‘prescriptions to imagine’ (Walton 1990) within a psychologistic semantic framework in the style of Kamp (1990). In the context of an information exchange, the interpretation of an assertion triggers a dynamic update of …
More on Fictional Names and Psychologistic Semantics
Children mix direct and indirect speech
This study investigates children's acquisition of the distinction between direct speech ( Elephant said, “I get the football” ) and indirect speech ( Elephant said that he gets the football ), by measuring children's interpretation of first, second, and third person pronouns. Based on evidence from various linguistic sources, we hypothesize that the direct–indirect distinction is acquired relatively late. We also predict more mistakes for third p…
Mixed quotation
The phenomenon of mixed quotation exhibits clear signs of both the apparent transparency of compositional language use and the opacity of pure quotation. I argue that the interpretation of a mixed quotation in- volves the resolution of a metalinguistic presupposition. The leading idea behind my proposal is that a mixed-quoted expression, say, “has an anomalous feature”, means what x referred to with the words ‘has an anomalous feature’. To unders…
Pure Quotation
Pure quotation, as in 'cat'has three letters, is a linguistic device designed for referring to linguistic expressions. I present a uniform reconstruction of the four classic philosophical accounts of the phenomenon: the proper name theory, the description theory, the demonstrative theory, and the disquotational theory. I evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each proposal with respect to fundamental semantic properties like compositionality, p…
Switches between Direct and Indirect Speech in Ancient Greek
I propose a uni ied semantic analysis of two phenomena characteristic of ancient Greek speech reporting, (i) the unmarked switching between direct and indirect discourse, and (ii) the use of οτι ('that') as a quotation introduction. I accommodate these phenomena in a formal semantic framework, where both can be modeled uniformly as instances of mixed quotation
Proper Names and Indexicals Trigger Rigid Presuppositions
Journal Article Proper Names and Indexicals Trigger Rigid Presuppositions Get access Emar Maier Emar Maier Radboud University Nijmegen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Semantics, Volume 26, Issue 3, August 2009, Pages 253–315, https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffp006 Published: 11 June 2009 Article history Received: 19 June 2008 Revision received: 03 December 2008 Accepted: 18 December 2008 Published: …
Presupposing acquaintance
This paper deals with the semantics of de dicto, de re and de se belief reports. First, I flesh out in some detail the established, classical theories that assume syntactic distinctions between all three types of reports. I then propose a new, unified analysis, based on two ideas discarded by the classical theory. These are: (i) modeling the de re/de dicto distinction as a difference in scope, and (ii) analyzing de se as merely a special case of …
Contrast as denial in multi-dimensional semantics
Presupposing acquaintance
This paper deals with the semantics of de dicto, de re and de se belief reports. First, I flesh out in some detail the established, classical theories that assume syntactic distinctions between all three types of reports. I then propose a new, unified analysis, based on two ideas discarded by the classical theory. These are: (i) modeling the de re/de dicto distinction as a difference in scope, and (ii) analyzing de se as merely a special case of …
Contrast as denial in multi-dimensional semantics
Pure Quotation
Pure quotation, as in 'cat'has three letters, is a linguistic device designed for referring to linguistic expressions. I present a uniform reconstruction of the four classic philosophical accounts of the phenomenon: the proper name theory, the description theory, the demonstrative theory, and the disquotational theory. I evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each proposal with respect to fundamental semantic properties like compositionality, p…
Perspective Shift Across Modalities
Languages offer various ways to present what someone said, thought, imagined, felt, and so on from their perspective. The prototypical example of a perspective-shifting device is direct quotation. In this review we define perspective shift in terms of indexical shift: A direct quotation like “Selena said, ‘Oh, I don't know.’” involves perspective shift because the first-person indexical ‘I’ refers to Selena, not to the actual speaker. We then dis…
Switches between Direct and Indirect Speech in Ancient Greek
I propose a uni ied semantic analysis of two phenomena characteristic of ancient Greek speech reporting, (i) the unmarked switching between direct and indirect discourse, and (ii) the use of οτι ('that') as a quotation introduction. I accommodate these phenomena in a formal semantic framework, where both can be modeled uniformly as instances of mixed quotation
Proper Names and Indexicals Trigger Rigid Presuppositions
Journal Article Proper Names and Indexicals Trigger Rigid Presuppositions Get access Emar Maier Emar Maier Radboud University Nijmegen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Semantics, Volume 26, Issue 3, August 2009, Pages 253–315, https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffp006 Published: 11 June 2009 Article history Received: 19 June 2008 Revision received: 03 December 2008 Accepted: 18 December 2008 Published: …
Presupposing acquaintance
This paper deals with the semantics of de dicto, de re and de se belief reports. First, I flesh out in some detail the established, classical theories that assume syntactic distinctions between all three types of reports. I then propose a new, unified analysis, based on two ideas discarded by the classical theory. These are: (i) modeling the de re/de dicto distinction as a difference in scope, and (ii) analyzing de se as merely a special case of …
Contrast as denial in multi-dimensional semantics
Switches between Direct and Indirect Speech in Ancient Greek
I propose a uni ied semantic analysis of two phenomena characteristic of ancient Greek speech reporting, (i) the unmarked switching between direct and indirect discourse, and (ii) the use of οτι ('that') as a quotation introduction. I accommodate these phenomena in a formal semantic framework, where both can be modeled uniformly as instances of mixed quotation
Mixed quotation
The phenomenon of mixed quotation exhibits clear signs of both the apparent transparency of compositional language use and the opacity of pure quotation. I argue that the interpretation of a mixed quotation in- volves the resolution of a metalinguistic presupposition. The leading idea behind my proposal is that a mixed-quoted expression, say, “has an anomalous feature”, means what x referred to with the words ‘has an anomalous feature’. To unders…
Pure Quotation
Pure quotation, as in 'cat'has three letters, is a linguistic device designed for referring to linguistic expressions. I present a uniform reconstruction of the four classic philosophical accounts of the phenomenon: the proper name theory, the description theory, the demonstrative theory, and the disquotational theory. I evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each proposal with respect to fundamental semantic properties like compositionality, p…
Children mix direct and indirect speech
This study investigates children's acquisition of the distinction between direct speech ( Elephant said, “I get the football” ) and indirect speech ( Elephant said that he gets the football ), by measuring children's interpretation of first, second, and third person pronouns. Based on evidence from various linguistic sources, we hypothesize that the direct–indirect distinction is acquired relatively late. We also predict more mistakes for third p…
Fictional Names in Psychologistic Semantics
Fictional names pose a difficult puzzle for semantics. How can we maintain that Frodo is a hobbit, while admitting that Frodo does not exist? To dissolve this paradox, I propose a way to formalize the interpretation of fiction as ‘prescriptions to imagine’ (Walton 1990) within a psychologistic semantic framework in the style of Kamp (1990). In the context of an information exchange, the interpretation of an assertion triggers a dynamic update of …
More on Fictional Names and Psychologistic Semantics
The advantage of story-telling
Children struggle with the interpretation of pronouns in direct speech ( Ann said, “I get a cookie” ), but not in indirect speech ( Ann said that she gets a cookie ) (Köder & Maier, 2016). Yet children's books consistently favor direct over indirect speech (Baker & Freebody, 1989). To reconcile these seemingly contradictory findings, we hypothesize that the poor performance found by Köder and Maier (2016) is due to the information-transmission se…
Quotation, demonstration, and attraction in sign language role shift
Schlenker: Role shift as visible context shiftSign language researchers have devoted a lot of attention to role shift, a way of reporting what someone said, signed, thought or did.Typically, role shift is characterized as a kind of direct quotation, involving a shift of the body or eye gaze away from the current addressee, and allowing the signer to sign "from the perspective of the reported speaker."i.e. depicting the reported (utterance) event …
The landscape of speech reporting
Languages offer various ways to report what someone said. There is now a vast but heterogeneous literature on speech report constructions scattered throughout the semantics literature. We offer a bird’s eye view of the entire landscape of reporting and propose a classification along two dimensions: at-issue vs. not-at-issue, and eventive vs. non-eventive. This bird’s eye perspective leads to genuinely new insights, for instance on the nature of q…
The discourse structure of free indirect discourse reports
We investigate the discourse structure of Free Indirect Discourse passages in narratives. We argue that Free Indirect Discourse reports consist of two separate propositional discourse units: an (explicit or implicit) frame segment and a reported content. These segments are connected at the level of discourse structure by a non-veridical, subordinating discourse relation of Attribution, familiar from recent SDRT analyses of indirect discourse cons…
Taking the perspective of narrative characters
An ongoing debate in the interpretation of referring expressions concerns the degree to which listeners make use of perspective information during referential processing. We aim to contribute to this debate by considering perspective shifting in narrative discourse. In a web-based mouse-tracking experiment in Dutch, we investigated whether listeners automatically shift to a narrative character’s perspective when resolving ambiguous referring expr…
Perspective Shift Across Modalities
Languages offer various ways to present what someone said, thought, imagined, felt, and so on from their perspective. The prototypical example of a perspective-shifting device is direct quotation. In this review we define perspective shift in terms of indexical shift: A direct quotation like “Selena said, ‘Oh, I don't know.’” involves perspective shift because the first-person indexical ‘I’ refers to Selena, not to the actual speaker. We then dis…
Coping With Imaginative Resistance
We propose to characterize imaginative resistance as the failure or unwillingness of the reader to take a fictional description of a deviant reality at face value. The goal of the paper is to explore how readers deal with such a breakdown of the default Face Value interpretation strategy. We posit two distinct interpretative ‘coping’ strategies which help the reader engage with the resistance-inducing fiction by attributing the offending content …
Emojis as Pictures
I argue that emojis are essentially little pictures, rather than words, gestures, expressives, or diagrams. 🎁 means that the world looks like that, from some viewpoint. I flesh out a pictorial semantics in terms of geometric projection with abstraction and stylization. Since such a semantics delivers only very minimal contents I add an account of pragmatic enrichment, driven by coherence and non-literal interpretation. The apparent semantic dist…
Minds
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Visual Components to Interpretation—Formal Approaches to Visible Meaning
Visual components of communication interact with the core linguistic system at all levels and make an important contribution to the meaning of the utterance expressed. This does not only apply to sign languages, which exclusively rely on the visual channel, but also co‐speech gestures and emojis, which are visual means that accompany and enhance spoken and written languages respectively. Visual meaning components often have iconic properties and …
Reporting, telling, and showing dreams
Dreams are not real, so when we recount them we prefix an intensional operator like ‘I dreamed that ...’. Linguists will analyze this construction in terms of clausal complementation syntax and possible worlds semantics. But talking about a dream is often more like telling a story, with a potentially complex discourse structure (involving propositional discourse units connected by coherence relations like Narration , Background , and Explanation …
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