Bridging and Relevance
Tomoko Matsui
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 76] 2000. xii, 251 pp.
Tomoko Matsui
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tomoko Matsui plays a role.
Title
Subjects Pragmatics | Semantics
Articles
2014 Children’s understanding of linguistic expressions of certainty and evidentiality Pragmatic Development in First Language Acquisition, Matthews, Danielle (ed.), pp. 295–316 | Article
Informants are not always trustworthy or knowledgeable. Therefore, it is no surprise that every language has means to indicate how the speaker acquired a piece of information, as well as means to indicate how certain the speaker is about the information he is describing. The former are often called… read more
2000 Linguistic encoding of the guarantee of relevance: Japanese sentence-final particle YO Pragmatic Markers and Propositional Attitude, Andersen, Gisle and Thorstein Fretheim (eds.), pp. 145 ff. | Article
1998 Pragmatic criteria for reference assignment: A Relevance-theoretic account of the acceptability of bridging The Concept of Reference in the Cognitive Sciences, Kronfeld, Amichai and Lawrence D. Roberts (eds.), pp. 47–97 | Article
In the study of reference assignment, the question of what pragmatic criteria are used to evaluate the resulting interpretation seems not yet to have been properly dealt with. This paper addresses the issue by examining factors which affect the acceptability of various cases of bridging reference.… read more
1998 Assessing a scenario-based account of bridging reference assignment Relevance Theory: Applications and implications, Carston, Robyn and Seiji Uchida (eds.), pp. 123 ff. | Article