Introduction to Irregular Perspective Shifts and Perspective Persistence, Discourse-Oriented and Theoretical Approaches

Perspective Persistence; Irregular Perspective Shifts; Form-Function Mismatch; indexicals; Grammatical Underspecification; Multiple-Perspective Construction

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[en] In this introduction, we set out the central themes of the special issue. It concentrates on imperfect function-form mappings, and discusses several cases in which specific perspectival meanings are not fully predictable on the basis of a perspectivizing grammatical construction alone. We distinguish two kinds of form-function mismatches: (1) perspective-persistent phenomena, i.e. grammatically signaled deictic and/or cognitive perspective shifts which are not realized in interpretation, and (2) irregular perspective shifts, which involve either grammatically un(der)specified shifts or grammatically signaled shifts that are interpreted as mixing multiple sources of deictic and/or cognitive perspective (‘multiple-perspective constructions’). We briefly discuss and contextualize each of the contributions, and highlight their central findings.

Research center :

Lilith - Liège, Literature, Linguistics - ULiège

Disciplines :

Languages & linguistics

Author, co-author :

Gentens, Caroline

Sansiñena, María Sol

Spronck, Stef

Van linden, An ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues modernes : ling., litt. et trad. > Linguistique synchronique anglaise

Language :

English

Title :

Introduction to Irregular Perspective Shifts and Perspective Persistence, Discourse-Oriented and Theoretical Approaches

Publication date :

2019

Journal title :

Pragmatics

ISSN :

1018-2101

Publisher :

IPrA Research Center, Belgium

Special issue title :

Irregular Perspective Shifts and Perspective Persistence: Discourse-Oriented and Theoretical Approaches

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Issue :

Pages :

155–169

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

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