Sous-minimalité, planification et effets de contexte sur la représentation sémantique

Two little studied effects of context on the representation of semantic content are discussed, and their implications for linguistic semantic models generally are considered. In cases of semantic subminimality, the hearer does not have to represent an expression’s full literal meaning in order to ac...

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Main Author: Nick Riemer
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Language:English
Published: Cercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICO 2014-06-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/corela/3424
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description Two little studied effects of context on the representation of semantic content are discussed, and their implications for linguistic semantic models generally are considered. In cases of semantic subminimality, the hearer does not have to represent an expression’s full literal meaning in order to achieve contextually appropriate understanding, since the context already supplies the information necessary for successful linguistic interaction. Second, there are persuasive, though speculative, reasons to believe that the nature of semantic representation varies along with the discourse context, particularly as concerns the contrast between planned and free contexts of utterance. These two contextual effects raise questions about the empirical status of the rich representation typically assumed in linguistic semantics, and supplement the inventory of context–meaning interactions that arguably need to be considered in attempts to develop a naturalistic theory of semantic competence.
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Sous-minimalité, planification et effets de contexte sur la représentation sémantique
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attention
semantic representation
literal meaning
context-dependence
pragmatic interpretation
semantic processing
title Sous-minimalité, planification et effets de contexte sur la représentation sémantique
title_full Sous-minimalité, planification et effets de contexte sur la représentation sémantique
title_fullStr Sous-minimalité, planification et effets de contexte sur la représentation sémantique
title_full_unstemmed Sous-minimalité, planification et effets de contexte sur la représentation sémantique
title_short Sous-minimalité, planification et effets de contexte sur la représentation sémantique
title_sort sous minimalite planification et effets de contexte sur la representation semantique
topic attention
semantic representation
literal meaning
context-dependence
pragmatic interpretation
semantic processing
url https://journals.openedition.org/corela/3424
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