Reference: From conventions to pragmatics
Edited by Laure Gardelle, Laurence Vincent-Durroux and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 228] 2023. vi, 349 pp.
Laure Gardelle
List of John Benjamins publications for which Laure Gardelle plays a role.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Semantic Plurality: English collective nouns and other ways of denoting pluralities of entities
Laure Gardelle
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 349] 2019. x, 215 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
From Culture to Language and Back: The Animacy Hierarchy in language and discourse
Edited by Laure Gardelle and Sandrine Sorlin
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 5:2 (2018) v, 190 pp.
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Pragmatics
The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns
Edited by Laure Gardelle and Sandrine Sorlin
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 171] 2015. vi, 337 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2023 Lions, flowers and the Romans: Exception management with generic and other count plurals Reference: From conventions to pragmatics, Gardelle, Laure, Laurence Vincent-Durroux and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin (eds.), pp. 71–87 | Chapter
Research on generic bare plurals has frequently pointed out that even though they refer to the whole class, in characterizing sentences (e.g. birds fly) they commonly license exceptions (Krifka et al. 1995). While quantification and probability models have failed to account for all uses, the… read more
2023 Speakers, addressees and the referential process: A pragmatic approach Reference: From conventions to pragmatics, Gardelle, Laure, Laurence Vincent-Durroux and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Chapter
2018 Introduction: Anthropocentrism, egocentrism and the notion of Animacy Hierarchy From Culture to Language and Back: The Animacy Hierarchy in language and discourse, Gardelle, Laure and Sandrine Sorlin (eds.), pp. 133–162 | Review article
2017 Are superordinates such as furniture and belongings collective nouns? Lingvisticæ Investigationes 40:2, pp. 150–172 | Article
One area of debate as to the boundaries of the class of “collective nouns” concerns non-count singular nouns such as furniture, which are typically used for several units of different kinds. Arguments for and against inclusion have been put forward, but ultimately, what has been noted is a… read more
2016 Lexical plurals for aggregates of discrete entities in English: Why plural, yet non-count, nouns? Lexical plurals and beyond, Lauwers, Peter and Marie Lammert (eds.), pp. 355–372 | Article
This paper studies why, for a plurality of discrete entities, a non-count plural might be preferred over a count noun or a non-count singular. Building partly on Wierzbicka (1985, 1988), it proposes two parameters: semantics, but also morphology. With lexical plurals, the items are construed as… read more
2015 Chapter 4. Sex-indefinite references to human beings in American English: Effective uses and pragmatic interferences. A case study of your child The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns, Gardelle, Laure and Sandrine Sorlin (eds.), pp. 69–92 | Article
This paper contributes to the study of effective uses of gender-inclusive pronouns in American English, following the proscription of systematic he and, sometimes, of they, with morphologically singular sex-indefinite antecedents. While a number of studies start from the sex-indefinite anaphors in… read more
2015 Chapter 1. Personal pronouns: An exposition The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns, Gardelle, Laure and Sandrine Sorlin (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article