“It was just so hard”
Ineffable just as a mixed expressive
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22130372 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emily Manetta (0000-0003-0291-3500, University of South Carolina), Ian Bhatia (0009-0000-3148-371X, University of Vermont) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Glossa a journal of general linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2397-1835 • E-ISSN: 2397-1835 |
| Publisher | Open Library of the Humanities (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.16995/glossa.10362 |
| OpenAlex | W4389680652 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 35 |
A highly productive debate has arisen over the past two decades concerning the division of labor between semantics and pragmatics in building meaning (Potts 2005; Kennedy and McNally 2005; Sauerland 2012; Roberts 2012; Coppock and Beaver 2014; Gutzmann 2019 i.a.). In this article we illustrate the depth of integration of context-independent and context-dependent meaning through a close analysis of the exclusive operator (EO) just. Recent accounts of the many distinct guises of EO just have proposed a unified shared function: quantification over sets of alternatives (Horn 2000; Orenstein 2015; Wiegand/Windhearn 2017, 2021; Beltrama 2021). We identify here an entirely new surface manifestation of just in the StoryListening Corpus (a set of bereavement narratives elicited during the COVID-19 pandemic), which we term ‘ineffability just’ and argue it serves as a mixed expressive (McCready 2010; Gutzmann 2012). It encodes both descriptive content as a new flavor of exclusive operator (Beltrama 2021), and simultaneously expressive content (Potts 2005, 2007) signaling that the speaker is at a loss for words in the moment to describe an experience more completely because of their affective response to its profound nature
Art · Font · Life span · Linguistics · Literature · Pragmatics · Successor cardinal · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication · History · Linguistic research and analysis · linguistics and terminology studies · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
Context and Content
Sense and Sensitivity
Coherence and Coreference
Context Dependence, Disagreement, and Predicates of Personal Taste
Defaults in update semantics
Rhetorical Structure Theory
Perspective-shifting with appositives and expressives
Predictability effects on durations of content and function words in conversational English
Logic and Conversation
Principles of the Exclusive Muddle
Just perfect, simply the best
Metaphor and Hyperbole
Quantity implicatures, exhaustive interpretation, and rational conversation
Varieties of conventional implicature
Elaboration
Information structure in discourse
Adjectival extremeness
How “Just” Gets Its Meanings
Dynamic predicate logic
The expressive dimension
Subordinating and coordinating discourse relations
The Computation of Scalar Implicatures
Syntax and semantics 9
The semantics of just
Scale Structure, Degree Modification, and the Semantics of Gradable Predicates
Pragmatic Halos
| Highly cited | No |
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