Maria Paola Tenchini
List of John Benjamins publications for which Maria Paola Tenchini plays a role.
Articles
2020 Wegener’s Wortsatz and the notion of sentence History of Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, (ICHoLS 14), Paris, 28 August – 1 September, Aussant, Émilie and Jean-Michel Fortis (eds.), pp. 49–64 | Chapter
This contribution aims to introduce Wegener’s defense of the notion of Wortsatz (word sentence) as a construction having a sentence status within the debate about the notion and the definition of sentence and its structure that developed in Germany during the second half of the nineteenth… read more
2016 A multi-act perspective on slurs Pejoration, Finkbeiner, Rita, Jörg Meibauer and Heike Wiese (eds.), pp. 167–186 | Article
This paper proposes a semantic interpretation of slurs based on a multi-speech act theory. According to this perspective, when a speaker utters a sentence containing a slur, he or she performs two different speech acts, one of which, following Searle’s taxonomy, is an expressive one. Therefore,… read more