“Won’t you?” reverse-polarity question tags in American English as a window into the semantics-pragmatics interface
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 21461963 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Tatjana Scheffler (0000-0001-7498-6202, Ruhr University Bochum, autor correspondente), Sophia A Malamud (0000-0002-1321-7685, Brandeis University) |
| Ano | 2023 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Fascículo | 6 |
| Páginas | 1285-1327 |
| Data de publicação | 2023-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Linguistics and Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0165-0157 • E-ISSN: 1573-0549 |
| Editora | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10988-023-09385-2 |
| OpenAlex | W4380089472 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 53 |
We model the conventional meaning of utterances that combine two distinct clause types: a (positive) declarative or imperative (in rare cases, interrogative) anchor and a (negative) interrogative tag, such as won’t you? . We argue that such utterances express a single speech act, and in fact, a single conventional update of the conversational scoreboard. The proposed model of this effect is a straightforward extension of prior proposals for the semantics of declaratives, imperatives, and preposed-negation interrogatives. Ours is the first unified account of these phenomena that addresses the sentential force of these utterances and outlines how the speech act effects arise from the scoreboard update and contextual factors. We enrich the conversational scoreboard, interpreted as a model of sentential force, to include graded commitments and non-at-issue meanings. A consequence of our model is that modified utterances can create “blended” speech acts which share some, but not all, properties with the unmodified utterances. The proposal has implications for models of other utterance modifiers, as well as for negative interrogatives and negation in general, and for imperative/jussive constructions
Interrogative · Interrogative word · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Negation · Pragmatics · Programming language · Speech act · Utterance · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence
The Interactive Stance
Interpreting Imperatives
The Myth of Conventional Implicature
Syntax and semantics of questions
On Negative Yes/No Questions
The Semantics of Imperatives within a Theory of Clause Types
Assertion
A question of commitment
The Corpus of Contemporary American English as the first reliable monitor corpus of English
Bias in commitment space semantics
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
Two-dimensional Semantics
Indirect Speech Acts
On Reacting to Assertions and Polar Questions
Three Ways to Avoid Commitments
Division of Labor in the Interpretation of Declaratives and Interrogatives
The structure of communicative acts
Mathematical models of dialogue 1
Attitudes in discourse
Reportativity, (not-) at-issueness, and assertion
Information structure in discourse
Guiding assertions and questions in discourse
Deconstructing variation in pragmatic function
Polarity particle responses as a window onto the interpretation of questions and assertions
Notions of at-issueness
Modifying illocutionary force
Negative Transportation and Tag Questions
Speech Acts
Pragmatics
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| Altamente citado | Não |