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Irregular perspective shifts and perspective persistence: Discourse-oriented and theoretical approaches
Edited by Caroline Gentens, María Sol Sansiñena, Stef Spronck and An Van linden
[Pragmatics 29:2] 2019
► pp. 155–169
Introduction

Irregular perspective shifts and perspective persistence, discourse-oriented and theoretical approaches

 | University of Leuven | University of Stockholm
 | University of Leuven
 | University of Helsinki
 | University of Liège | University of Leuven
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.
Keywords: perspective persistence, irregular perspective shifts, form-function mismatch, grammatical underspecification, multiple-perspective construction
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Published online: 24 April 2019
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