Creating placeholders on the fly: A metarepresentational approach

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2023.03.021" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.pragma.2023.03.021</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Creating placeholders on the fly: A metarepresentational approach

Original language description

In verbal and non-verbal discourse, a communicator is occasionally unable or unwilling to produce a certain expression for contextual reasons (e.g. memory lapse, politeness consideration). In such cases, she may employ a placeholder (PH), such as whatchamacallit, to fill in the slot of a target expression. Research on PHs has been growing, but previous studies have been almost exclusively concerned with conventional forms such as whatchamacallit and you-know-what, ‘conventional’ in that they are well known in a speech community and commonly used by the community members. In this paper, we reveal various ways in which a communicator creates an ad hoc PH form on the fly, drawing examples from two East Asian languages: Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. The ad hoc PH data are naturally handled from the perspective of relevance-theoretic pragmatics, especially its foundational concepts of optimal relevance and metarepresentation. More specifically, a communicator, when she encounters a word-formulation problem, may improvise a PH form by metarepresenting a target form with varying degrees of resemblance. From a hearer/reader's angle, the presumption of optimal relevance and a set of contextual assumptions guide him to identify the referent of an ad hoc PH and to derive a variety of contextual implications. © 2023 Elsevier B.V.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Pragmatics

ISSN

03782166

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

210

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2023

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

109 - 121

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85152258942