Morphopragmatics: Diminutives and Intensifiers in Italian, German, and Other Languages

by Wolfgang U. Dressler, Lavinia M. Barbaresi

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ISBN-13:	9783110140415
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	09/01/1994
Series:	Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , #76
Edition description:	Reprint 2011
Pages:	690
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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Presents a new sub-discipline, morphogramatics, integrating morphology and pragmatics, which is focused at grammatical (but non-prototypical) morphological phenomena such as diminutives, intensifiers, and honorifics. The authors claim that such regular morphological operations produce predictable pragmatic meanings that have so far failed to receive a systematic and explanatory treatment. They assert that this objective cannot be accomplished within semantics or general pragmatics, and to this end propose a theory of morphogramatics which deals with the area of systematic pragmatic meanings of morphological rules, i.e., of the regular pragmatic effects produced by them. The data mainly come from Italian and German, but English, French, Spanish, Polish, Japanese, Danish and other languages are also analyzed contrastively (including translation equivalences). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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