Diane Blakemore
Biographic Data
| ID | 749938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diane Blakemore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diane |
| FAMILY NAME | Blakemore |
| SIGNATURE | BLAKEMORE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 340 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Slurs and expletives: A Case Against a General Account of Expressive Meaning
Discourse markers in free indirect style and interpreting
On the descriptive ineffability of expressive meaning
Communication and the representation of thought: The use of audience-directed expressions in free indirect thought representations
This paper examines the use of audience-directed or inherently communicative expressions (discourse markers and interjections) in free indirect thought representations in fiction. It argues that the insights of Banfield's (1982) no-narrator approach to free indirect style can be accommodated in a relevance theoretic framework. The result is an account in which the author's act of revealing a character's thoughts communicates a guarantee of optima…
Or’-parentheticals, ‘that is’-parentheticals and the pragmatics of reformulation
The classification of that is , or (in other words) , and or rather as reformulation markers would seem to suggest that the utterances they introduce achieve relevance in the same way. However, the examination of a range of discrepancies between reformulations introduced by or , on the one hand, and reformulations introduced by that is , on the other, suggests that any account of the pragmatics of reformulation must be a non-unitary one. In this …
Neil Smith's linguistics
Divisions of labour: The analysis of parentheticals
The prosody-pragmatics interface
Introduction to Coordination: Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics
The pragmatics of sentential coordination with and
And-Parentheticals
Relevance and Linguistic Meaning: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse Markers
The importance of discourse markers (words like 'so', 'however', and 'well') lies in the theoretical questions they raise about the nature of discourse and the relationship between linguistic meaning and context. They are regarded as being central to semantics because they raise problems for standard theories of meaning, and to pragmatics because they seem to play a role in the way discourse is understood. In this new and important study, Diane B…
Indicators and procedures: Nevertheless and but
The paper aims to clarify the Relevance theoretic notion of procedural meaning (cf. Blakemore 1987, Wilson & Sperber 1993) through the analysis of but and nevertheless . I show, first, that a procedural analysis is able to account for differences between these expressions that cannot be explained in terms of the speech-act theoretic notion of non-truth conditional indicators, and, second, that these differences show that the conception of procedu…
Restatement and exemplification: A relevance theoretic reassessment of elaboration
According to a number of researchers in linguistics and artificial intelligence, the key to the meanings of expressions such as in other words, that is, and for example/for instance lies in the particular coherence relations they express in discourse. It is argued that these relations are sub-types of the relation of Elaboration and hence are ideational or semantic relations which express some experience of the world about us and within our imagi…
Are apposition markers discourse markers
This paper aims to re-assess the notion DISCOURSE MARKER as it is applied to a subset of so-called apposition markers. It is argued that the classification of markers of reformulation as discourse markers alongside expressions like but and so is incoherent from a semantic point of view, since this ignores the distinction between PROCEDURAL and CONCEPTUAL meaning. Moreover, this classification is based on an account of discourse which is not only …
Understanding Utterances: An Introduction to Pragmatics
Ray Gibbs, The poetics of mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 527 + ix
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Echo questions: A pragmatic account
Constraints on Interpretation
Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1990), pp. 363-370
Semantic constraints on relevance
Well in dialogue games
Semantic constraints on relevance
Indicators and procedures: Nevertheless and but
The paper aims to clarify the Relevance theoretic notion of procedural meaning (cf. Blakemore 1987, Wilson & Sperber 1993) through the analysis of but and nevertheless . I show, first, that a procedural analysis is able to account for differences between these expressions that cannot be explained in terms of the speech-act theoretic notion of non-truth conditional indicators, and, second, that these differences show that the conception of procedu…
Are apposition markers discourse markers
This paper aims to re-assess the notion DISCOURSE MARKER as it is applied to a subset of so-called apposition markers. It is argued that the classification of markers of reformulation as discourse markers alongside expressions like but and so is incoherent from a semantic point of view, since this ignores the distinction between PROCEDURAL and CONCEPTUAL meaning. Moreover, this classification is based on an account of discourse which is not only …
On the descriptive ineffability of expressive meaning
The pragmatics of sentential coordination with and
Echo questions: A pragmatic account
Or’-parentheticals, ‘that is’-parentheticals and the pragmatics of reformulation
The classification of that is , or (in other words) , and or rather as reformulation markers would seem to suggest that the utterances they introduce achieve relevance in the same way. However, the examination of a range of discrepancies between reformulations introduced by or , on the one hand, and reformulations introduced by that is , on the other, suggests that any account of the pragmatics of reformulation must be a non-unitary one. In this …
And-Parentheticals
Slurs and expletives: A Case Against a General Account of Expressive Meaning
Discourse markers in free indirect style and interpreting
Divisions of labour: The analysis of parentheticals
Communication and the representation of thought: The use of audience-directed expressions in free indirect thought representations
This paper examines the use of audience-directed or inherently communicative expressions (discourse markers and interjections) in free indirect thought representations in fiction. It argues that the insights of Banfield's (1982) no-narrator approach to free indirect style can be accommodated in a relevance theoretic framework. The result is an account in which the author's act of revealing a character's thoughts communicates a guarantee of optima…
The prosody-pragmatics interface
Introduction to Coordination: Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics
Well in dialogue games
Semantic constraints on relevance
Constraints on Interpretation
Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1990), pp. 363-370
Echo questions: A pragmatic account
Understanding Utterances: An Introduction to Pragmatics
Ray Gibbs, The poetics of mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 527 + ix
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Are apposition markers discourse markers
This paper aims to re-assess the notion DISCOURSE MARKER as it is applied to a subset of so-called apposition markers. It is argued that the classification of markers of reformulation as discourse markers alongside expressions like but and so is incoherent from a semantic point of view, since this ignores the distinction between PROCEDURAL and CONCEPTUAL meaning. Moreover, this classification is based on an account of discourse which is not only …
Restatement and exemplification: A relevance theoretic reassessment of elaboration
According to a number of researchers in linguistics and artificial intelligence, the key to the meanings of expressions such as in other words, that is, and for example/for instance lies in the particular coherence relations they express in discourse. It is argued that these relations are sub-types of the relation of Elaboration and hence are ideational or semantic relations which express some experience of the world about us and within our imagi…
Indicators and procedures: Nevertheless and but
The paper aims to clarify the Relevance theoretic notion of procedural meaning (cf. Blakemore 1987, Wilson & Sperber 1993) through the analysis of but and nevertheless . I show, first, that a procedural analysis is able to account for differences between these expressions that cannot be explained in terms of the speech-act theoretic notion of non-truth conditional indicators, and, second, that these differences show that the conception of procedu…
Relevance and Linguistic Meaning: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse Markers
The importance of discourse markers (words like 'so', 'however', and 'well') lies in the theoretical questions they raise about the nature of discourse and the relationship between linguistic meaning and context. They are regarded as being central to semantics because they raise problems for standard theories of meaning, and to pragmatics because they seem to play a role in the way discourse is understood. In this new and important study, Diane B…
Introduction to Coordination: Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics
The pragmatics of sentential coordination with and
And-Parentheticals
Neil Smith's linguistics
Divisions of labour: The analysis of parentheticals
The prosody-pragmatics interface
Or’-parentheticals, ‘that is’-parentheticals and the pragmatics of reformulation
The classification of that is , or (in other words) , and or rather as reformulation markers would seem to suggest that the utterances they introduce achieve relevance in the same way. However, the examination of a range of discrepancies between reformulations introduced by or , on the one hand, and reformulations introduced by that is , on the other, suggests that any account of the pragmatics of reformulation must be a non-unitary one. In this …
Communication and the representation of thought: The use of audience-directed expressions in free indirect thought representations
This paper examines the use of audience-directed or inherently communicative expressions (discourse markers and interjections) in free indirect thought representations in fiction. It argues that the insights of Banfield's (1982) no-narrator approach to free indirect style can be accommodated in a relevance theoretic framework. The result is an account in which the author's act of revealing a character's thoughts communicates a guarantee of optima…
On the descriptive ineffability of expressive meaning
Discourse markers in free indirect style and interpreting
Slurs and expletives: A Case Against a General Account of Expressive Meaning
Linguistics (19 works) · Philosophy (19 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (11 works) · Pragmatics (10 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works)