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Author Rett, Jessica, author.

Title The semantics of evaluativity / Jessica Rett
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Series Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 54
Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 54.
Summary This volume focuses on the semantic phenomenon of evaluativity in sentences such as John is tall and its consequences across constructions. It proposes an account based on assumptions that speakers and hearers make about the relationship between the simplicity of a situation and the simplicity of the language used to describe that situation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 14, 2015)
Subject Connotation (Linguistics)
Pragmatics.
pragmatics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
Connotation (Linguistics)
Pragmatics
Languages & Literatures.
Philology & Linguistics.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191779756
019177975X
9780191019432
0191019437