Download or read book Accentuation and Interpretation written by H. Schmitz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-01-23 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develops a highly original theory of accentuation in which accentuation serves the mere pragmatic function of making utterances well comprehensible. Semantic effects of accentuation are explained as epiphenomena of pragmatic accentuation. The theory is formally elaborated in a model-theoretic framework and experimentally justified.