Alison Hall
Biographic Data
| ID | 3823738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Hall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Hall |
| SIGNATURE | HALL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cognitive schemas, pragmatic enrichment and the contextualism versus minimalism debate
Cognitive schemas, scripts, or frames — chunks of information that are frequently used and are therefore highly accessible and easily retrieved — are often appealed to by theories of utterance comprehension to explain conventional patterns of inferences. In this chapter I show that schemas are employed not just to integrate context with the utterance, but are also needed to infer context-specific interpretations of the individual words or phrases…
Pragmatic inference, levels of meaning and speaker accountability
Are speakers held more accountable for what they explicitly communicate than for what they implicate? Speakers typically communicate more than they linguistically encode, thus leaving to addressees the task of inferring what they intend to communicate. As a result, the linguistically decoded meaning is pragmatically enriched to arrive at what the speaker says (or directly communicates) - the 'explicated content' of the utterance - which can serve…
Pragmatics Versus Semantics
The distinction between semantics and pragmatics has proved notoriously difficult to agree on. Most people would accept that pragmatics is concerned with context‐specific, inferred meanings, whereas semantics is concerned with the conventional meanings of words and sentences. Semantics is, however, traditionally seen as the study of truth conditions, with pragmatics being “meaning minus truth conditions.” The tension between these two requirement…
Back to school from a holiday in the slums
In the late 1960s and early 1970s SHELTER produced a series of campaign pamphlets aimed at raising public awareness of homelessness in the United Kingdom. Back to school from a holiday in the slums! was one such pamphlet which, using a mixture of photographic images and oral testimony, posed a series of questions about the relationship between living in unfit and overcrowded housing and poor educational performance. The school environment was ‘a …
Subsentential utterances, ellipsis, and pragmatic enrichment
It is argued that genuinely subsentential phrases, such as a discourse-initial utterance of “From France” to indicate the provenance of an item, provide evidence for the reality of the pragmatic process of free enrichment. I consider recent attempts to treat such discourse-initial fragments as linguistic ellipsis of some kind while accommodating the difference between these cases and accepted types of ellipsis such as sluicing and gapping (for ex…
Do discourse connectives encode concepts or procedures
Do discourse connectives encode concepts or procedures
Pragmatic inference, levels of meaning and speaker accountability
Are speakers held more accountable for what they explicitly communicate than for what they implicate? Speakers typically communicate more than they linguistically encode, thus leaving to addressees the task of inferring what they intend to communicate. As a result, the linguistically decoded meaning is pragmatically enriched to arrive at what the speaker says (or directly communicates) - the 'explicated content' of the utterance - which can serve…
Back to school from a holiday in the slums
In the late 1960s and early 1970s SHELTER produced a series of campaign pamphlets aimed at raising public awareness of homelessness in the United Kingdom. Back to school from a holiday in the slums! was one such pamphlet which, using a mixture of photographic images and oral testimony, posed a series of questions about the relationship between living in unfit and overcrowded housing and poor educational performance. The school environment was ‘a …
Do discourse connectives encode concepts or procedures
Subsentential utterances, ellipsis, and pragmatic enrichment
It is argued that genuinely subsentential phrases, such as a discourse-initial utterance of “From France” to indicate the provenance of an item, provide evidence for the reality of the pragmatic process of free enrichment. I consider recent attempts to treat such discourse-initial fragments as linguistic ellipsis of some kind while accommodating the difference between these cases and accepted types of ellipsis such as sluicing and gapping (for ex…
Back to school from a holiday in the slums
In the late 1960s and early 1970s SHELTER produced a series of campaign pamphlets aimed at raising public awareness of homelessness in the United Kingdom. Back to school from a holiday in the slums! was one such pamphlet which, using a mixture of photographic images and oral testimony, posed a series of questions about the relationship between living in unfit and overcrowded housing and poor educational performance. The school environment was ‘a …
Pragmatics Versus Semantics
The distinction between semantics and pragmatics has proved notoriously difficult to agree on. Most people would accept that pragmatics is concerned with context‐specific, inferred meanings, whereas semantics is concerned with the conventional meanings of words and sentences. Semantics is, however, traditionally seen as the study of truth conditions, with pragmatics being “meaning minus truth conditions.” The tension between these two requirement…
Pragmatic inference, levels of meaning and speaker accountability
Are speakers held more accountable for what they explicitly communicate than for what they implicate? Speakers typically communicate more than they linguistically encode, thus leaving to addressees the task of inferring what they intend to communicate. As a result, the linguistically decoded meaning is pragmatically enriched to arrive at what the speaker says (or directly communicates) - the 'explicated content' of the utterance - which can serve…
Cognitive schemas, pragmatic enrichment and the contextualism versus minimalism debate
Cognitive schemas, scripts, or frames — chunks of information that are frequently used and are therefore highly accessible and easily retrieved — are often appealed to by theories of utterance comprehension to explain conventional patterns of inferences. In this chapter I show that schemas are employed not just to integrate context with the utterance, but are also needed to infer context-specific interpretations of the individual words or phrases…
Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (3 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works)