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When temporal expressions do not tell time: a pragmatic approach to temporality, argumentation and discourse
Auteur(s)
Morency, Patrick
Editeur(s)
Chilton, Paul
Gosselin, Laurent
Rocci, Andrea
Date de parution
2015
Résumé
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.
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Neuchâtel, 2015
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doctoral thesis
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