When temporal expressions do not tell time: a pragmatic approach to temporality, argumentation and discourse
Author(s)
Morency, Patrick
Editor(s)
Chilton, Paul
Gosselin, Laurent
Rocci, Andrea
Date issued
2015
Subjects
Procedural Pragmatics Temporal Linguistics temporal adverbs temporal connectives non-descriptive Usages Discourse Markers
Abstract
Using temporal expressions to indicate relations other than temporal ones is a well-documented phenomenon. This study aims to tackle the problem from a procedural pragmatic perspective, an approach that considers that certain expressions – temporal adverbs and connectives in this case – encode instructions guiding the addressee to infer the relevant relations between the constituent parts of utterances to obtain the most appropriate interpretation. Here, a dozen English and French temporal expressions are described and analyzed with the aim of understanding how and why they could be used non-temporally, and proposing a general outline for the type of procedure such expressions could encode.
Notes
Thèse de doctorat : Université de Neuchâtel, 2015
Publication type
doctoral thesis
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