"Hot news" and perfect change
This paper proposes an analysis of the hot news Present Perfect (PP) building on Nishiyama & Koenig's (2010) analysis of the perfect as denoting a perfect state introduced by a variable that needs to be pragmatically enriched. Pragmatic meaning is analysed extending Rett & Murray's...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:200424 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/200424 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/catjl.245 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Present perfect Mirativity Semantic and pragmatic change Perfet Hot news Mirativitat Canvi semàntic i pragmàtic |
| Sumario: | This paper proposes an analysis of the hot news Present Perfect (PP) building on Nishiyama & Koenig's (2010) analysis of the perfect as denoting a perfect state introduced by a variable that needs to be pragmatically enriched. Pragmatic meaning is analysed extending Rett & Murray's (2013) representation of mirative meaning as the target state of a learning event, which I take to be the speaker's reaction of surprise more generally. The analysis is considered in the light of noncanonical uses of the PP in Australian English narratives and police media reports. I argue that hot news usage is at the basis of such extensions and propose representations for uses in sequences of clauses expressing temporal progression and in clauses containing a definite past time adverbial. The paper concludes by discussing the present analysis in the light of previous research and its implication to our understanding of the grammaticalization of perfects. |
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