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Irregular perspective shifts and perspective persistence: Discourse-oriented and theoretical approachesEdited 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
María Sol Sansiñena | University of Leuven
Stef Spronck | University of Helsinki
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
Available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 license.
Published online: 24 April 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.18050.gen
https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.18050.gen
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