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Escandell-Vidal, Victoria and Elena Vilinbakhova. 2019. “People are people to me”: The interpretation of tautologies with frame-setters. Journal of Pragmatics 143 : 96–108.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

Though stative and always real, tautologies are practiced with limitary frame-setters. Frame-setters present an opinion-holder, or affix locative and temporal directions. This paper examines interpretative strategies of framed tautologies and the role of frame-setters. It adds to the common assay of interpreting constructions with semantic disproportions.