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Publication details [#53614]

Capone, Alessandro. 2010. “Between Scylla and Charybdis”: The semantics and pragmatics of attitudes ‘de se’. Intercultural Pragmatics 7 (3) : 471–503.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

Drawing on the relevance-theoretic framework, this study argues that pragmatic maxims and mechanisms are involved in the recovery of ‘de se’ attitudes in English (and in Italian), in cases in which grammatical and semantic information does not exclusively define the ‘de se’ interpretation.