Abstract
Building on [1] and [2], [3] argues for a ‘division of pragmatic labor’: as a result of general pragmatic interactions, unmarked expressions are generally used to convey unmarked messages and marked expressions are generally used to convey marked messages (see also [4,5]). [6] explicitly splits this into two separate pressures (“What is expressed simply is stereotypically identified” and “What’s said in an abnormal way isn’t normal”), and [7], [8], [9], and [10] seek to characterize the opposition in terms how form-meaning pairs are optimally chosen.
Our thanks to David Clausen, Noah Constant, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Sven Lauer, Florian Schwarz, and Jess Spencer for discussion.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
McCawley, J.D.: Conversational implicature and the lexicon. In: Cole, P. (ed.) Syntax and Semantics. Pragmatics, vol. 7, pp. 245–259. Academic Press, New York (1978)
Kiparsky, P.: Word formation and the lexicon. In: Ingemann, F. (ed.) Proceedings of the Mid-Atlantic Linguistic Conference, University of Kansas (1982)
Horn, L.R.: Toward a new taxonomy for pragmatic inference: Q-based and R-based implicature. In: Schiffrin, D. (ed.) Meaning, Form, and Use in Context: Linguistic Applications, pp. 11–42. Georgetown University Press, Washington (1984)
Horn, L.R.: A Natural History of Negation. University of Chicago Press, Chicago (1989) (Reissued 2001 by CSLI)
Horn, L.R.: Presupposition and implicature. In: Lappin, S. (ed.) The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory, pp. 299–319. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford (1996)
Levinson, S.C.: Presumptive Meanings: The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature. MIT Press, Cambridge (2000)
Blutner, R.: Lexical pragmatics. Journal of Semantics 15(2), 115–162 (1998)
Blutner, R.: Some aspects of optimality in natural language interpretation. Journal of Semantics 17(3), 189–216 (2000)
van Rooy, R.: Signalling games select Horn strategies. Linguistics and Philosophy 27(4), 493–527 (2004)
Franke, M.: Signal to Act: Game Theory in Pragmatics. ILLC Dissertation Series. Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, Universiteit van Amsterdam (2009)
Lakoff, R.: Remarks on ‘this’ and ‘that’. In: Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society, vol. 10, pp. 345–356 (1974)
Kitagawa, C.: A note on ‘sono’ and ‘ano’. In: Bedell, G. (ed.) Explorations in Linguistics: Papers in Honor of Kazuko Inoue, Kurosio, Tokyo, pp. 232–243 (1979)
Bowdle, B.F., Ward, G.: Generic demonstratives. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, pp. 32–43. Berkeley Linguistics Society (1995)
Naruoka, K.: Expressive functions of Japanese adnominal demonstrative ‘konna/sonna/anna’. In: Hudson, M.E., Sells, P., Jun, S.A. (eds.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics, vol. 13, pp. 433–444. CSLI, Stanford (2008)
Ono, K.: Territories of information and Japanese demonstratives. The Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese 28(2), 131–155 (1994)
Wolter, L.K.: That’s That: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Demonstrative Noun Phrases. PhD thesis, UC Santa Cruz (2006)
Liberman, M.: Affective demonstratives, Language Log (2009)
Potts, C., Schwarz, F.: Affective ‘this’. Linguistic Issues in Language Technology (to appear)
Constant, N., Davis, C., Potts, C., Schwarz, F.: UMass Amherst sentiment corpora (2009)
Pang, B., Lee, L.: Seeing stars: Exploiting class relationships for sentiment categorization with respect to rating scales. In: Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2005), Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005, pp. 115–124. Association for Computational Linguistics (2005)
Pang, B., Lee, L., Vaithyanathan, S.: Thumbs up? sentiment classification using machine learning techniques. In: Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Philadelphia, July 2002, pp. 79–86. Association for Computational Linguistics (2002)
Potts, C., Schwarz, F.: Exclamatives and heightened emotion: Extracting pragmatic generalizations from large corpora. Ms., UMass Amherst (2008)
Constant, N., Davis, C., Potts, C., Schwarz, F.: The pragmatics of expressive content: Evidence from large corpora. Sprache und Datenverarbeitung 33(1–2), 5–21 (2009)
Gelman, A., Hill, J.: Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2007)
Baayen, R.H.: Analyzing Linguistic Data: A Practical Introduction to Statistics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2008)
Jaeger, T.F.: Categorical data analysis: Away from ANOVAs (transformation or not) and towards logit mixed models. Journal of Memory and Language (2008)
Baayen, R.H., Davidson, D.J., Bates, D.M.: Mixed-effects modeling with crossed random effects for subjects and items. Journal of Memory and Language 59(4), 390–412 (2008)
Ginzburg, J., Sag, I.A.: Interrogative Investigations: The Form, Meaning, and Use of English Interrogatives. CSLI, Stanford (2001)
Zanuttini, R., Portner, P.: Exclamative clauses at the syntax–semantics interface. Language 79(1), 39–81 (2003)
Castroviejo Miró, E.: Wh-Exclamatives in Catalan. PhD thesis, Universitat de Barcelona (2006)
Beaver, D., Clark, B.Z.: Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines Meaning. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford (2008)
de Marneffe, M., Potts, C., Manning, C.D.: “Was it good? it was provocative.” learning adjective scales from review corpora and the web. Ms., Stanford University (2009)
Manning, C.D., Klein, D., Morgan, William Tseng, H., Rafferty, A.N.: Stanford log-linear part-of-speech tagger. version 1.6 (2008)
Greenwood, M.: NP chunker v1.1 (2005)
Elbourne, P.: Demonstratives as individual concepts. Linguistics and Philosophy 31(4), 409–466 (2008)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Davis, C., Potts, C. (2010). Affective Demonstratives and the Division of Pragmatic Labor. In: Aloni, M., Bastiaanse, H., de Jager, T., Schulz, K. (eds) Logic, Language and Meaning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6042. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14287-1_5
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14287-1_5
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-14286-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-14287-1
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)