Form and Meaning in Language, Volume II

This volume continues the collection of work by Charles J. Fillmore, which he started in 2003. Taken together, the work gathered in these volumes reflects Fillmore's desire to make sense of the workings of language in a way that keeps in mind questions of language form, language use, and the conventions linking form, meaning, and practice.

Divided into four parts, the papers collected in Volume II explore language in use; semantics and pragmatics; text and discourse; and language in society.

May 2020

Acknowledgments
Introduction by Pedro Gras, Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren
PART 1: Language in Use
1 On Fluency
2 Ideal Readers and Real Readers
3 Remarks on Contrastive Pragmatics
PART 2: Semantics and Pragmatics
4 Subjects, Speakers, and Roles
5 Entailment Rules in a Semantic Theory
6 Verbs of Judging: An Exercise in Semantic Description
7 Pragmatically Controlled Zero Anaphora
PART 3: Text and Discourse
9 Pragmatics and the Description of Discourse
10 Story Grammars and Sentence Grammars: Some Considerations
11 Linguistics as a Tool for Discourse Analysis
PART 4: Language in Society
12 A Grammarian Looks to Sociolinguistics
13 Humor in Academic Discourse
14 Using Common Sense: A Linguistic Perspective on Judicial Interpretations of ‘Use a Firearm’
Index

Form and Meaning in Language, Volume II

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