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Prédicats de communication — prédicats d’interprétation des données
Predicates of communication — predicates of interpreting data

Author(s): Izabela Pozierak-Trybisz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Semantics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: perception; signs; non-verbal communication; verbal communication; semantics; cognition

Summary/Abstract: There are uses of verbs, traditionally called ‘speech verbs’ where these verbs become predicates interpreting data — natural signs perceived by humans. Applying a rigorous semantic analysis allows us to understand and explain that there are a metaphorical and an imperfective uses (iterative or restrictive) of predicates of communication, as if the universe talking to us.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 27
  • Page Range: 186-203
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: French